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sisters or any where for a little while then when I'd go out to the hen house to gather eggs and there wouldn't be a one not even a nest egg and one time I was getting around 18 to 20 a day. So one day this person was at my house and I said you know; the funniest thing happens every time I leave the place. I go out to gather the eggs and there won't be a single one and she said don't you reckon the dogs get them? I said do you think a dog could reach a five foot hen nest? So then she said I bet a rat gets them and I said, yes; I imagine it's a two legged rat, but that never stopped it any more than if I'd never said a word. Then twice she was caught borrowing rice, beans and grits. One of my other neighbors walked in on her as she was getting the stuff. And one day I was lying down and she came through the house and I waited for her to come back out so when she was gone so long I decided to go see where she was and she had two or three paper bags with beans, rice and flour an she was so nervous when I walked out on her till she could hardly talk. I felt sorry for her the poor thing. I couldn't ever keep a spool of thread, safety pins, combs and many other little articles. She even took some of my underwear. I could tell you many more things, such as when her husband came to the house one evening just at dusk, just light enough that you could see an image and Willie was sitting on the front porch in the swing when he saw this man going through the lane and in a few minutes he came back out with one of Willie's plows, so Willie never said a word but the next evening when he came in from work he went over to this neighbors house and told him he come after his plow so when this fellow saw what Willie had in his back pocket he went right on and got the plow without a word. Willie Hover would take a lot but when he had enough he'd let you know it.
I often laugh to myself about the time he was so angry with me, but I can't remember what it was all about. Any way he walked up in front of me and shook his fist at me and said; Oh., don't I wish you were a man. He never hit me a time in our whole 60 years of marriage. But I'm sure there were times when he would liked to have, especially when he wanted me to get ride of my bunch of geese as he'd try to tow the hogs in the lane and the geese were already in there so when Willie would throw corn inside the lane gate for the hogs, the geese would run at them and c? at them and scare them back and it would make Willie so mad. One day I went out just in time to save one of my big fine ganders. He had hung him with his head between the picket
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