bathe & ride

I am going to jot down a few silly and thoughtless things I did while growing up. I can not explain why I did it then, only I never did think before I acted, and everybody paid the price.

We had always lived out in the county and when we moved into town all the kids caught all the diseases that went around in school. So Bob came down with the measles while we were down at Jennies place. Mother told me to stay there with him and she went home. Well Bob did not want to stay and neither did I, so I warped him up good and we went home. It turned out all the young kids came down with the measles. All the Mothers blame me for taking Bob out in the streets; well you know I got told about it.

Another time, I was home alone with the door locked and Bob came home from school and I would not let him in and he kicked the door in, well I got told about it.

We lived on the edge of town and the ditch run on the edge of our place, and the horses running loose would come there to drink. One time Bob run them in the barn, and caught one and was riding him around the place. So he rode up to the door and wanted to know if I wanted to take a ride. “Oh sure says I,” and jump on the back behind Bob, that horse jumped out and run under the cloth line.

“Bob and I picked ourselves up off the ground”

Papa always had a team of horses at home with the milk, we would drive the cows back and forth, and it was about a mile to the ranch.

bathe & ride
One night I came in early from the farm, where I had been helping in the hayfield. All I wanted was a bath and then I wanted to go somewhere on a horse. So when I got home I saddled the horse up and went into take a bath. When I went out to get on the horse Jean was riding it around in the yard. When I asked him to get off, he just laughed at me. Well I tried to drag him off and he would keep just far enough away from me so I couldn’t catch him. I chased him two or three blocks.

“Then he stopped in the middle of a mud hole

and thought I wouldn’t get in the mud hole to catch him”

But I jumped in the hole, grabbed him by the leg and pulled him off and we had it fast and furious till he started crying. Then we were all muddy and the horse had already gone home. Well to make a story short I never went anywhere that night.