a long ride

Daphne kept after me to get them to come and take us for a ride in his car. I did not want to because that would pair me off with Marion and I could not stand him.

One Saturday Earl came to the Barney place and asked me to see if I could find Daphne and that we would all go for a ride. I said OK, we picked Daphne up and he drove us to the dry lake outside of Cowley. And Daphne wanted to learn how to drive the car. I never got so tired and board in my life sitting in the back seat with Marion while Earl and Daphne was enjoying every minute of the whole afternoon, riding around on dry like. Well that started the courtship of Daphne Steele and Earl Despain, I never did go anywhere with them and did not know how Daphne got Jennie to go with Marion, but they were together the rest of the summer.

separate ways
We both came home to go to school. Daphne and Earl were still seeing each other, and Daphne and I were growing apart fast. My friends were not good enough for her and she went her way and I went mine.

Papa had rented a farm about three miles from Cowley and had planted sugar beets and we had to go out there and help harvest them beets. The weather was cold and it had been raining for a couple of days, it was the first of October, the wind was cold.