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sad.) Gerdenhire, 81 was born on
J.PeGardenhirets his father stock
farm looated near- Rockwall, kaufmen Co.
Pookwall is now theiCo. setet of
:,ockwa/1 Co., which wets emoted out of
-aufman CO. in l876• Gardenhire op-
eratee the farm while Jordan Gardenhire,
brother, operated the stock part.
Sad wanted to bee cowboy, so jordan
taught him: to ride hortwl and work cattle
at an early age. This he did until he
was 18 vrs of age, when his uncle Jordan
(leaded to se k emeloyment on the U3
77..;noh in Stephens Co. :-?aylor -Dougherty.,
rancher at, 7orney", Texas, bought the
7.'.ardenhire eettle. .Tordan and :led then
went to the 173 Panch where they were em-
Ployed, as cowboys. The JS7)eneh moved
the stock to Baylor To. in 1179, where
they esteblished nnotheir ranch. After
27 Yrs, 3ed quit the US Penesh to enter
the real estate business in Uvalde, -rex,.
:.'hree Yrs leter, he quit the real estate
business -to enter the Tro. businees at
Boyd, 11.-Yre. later, he retired
froe all activity end now resides at
1417 GondeS. l't. 'Iorth, ?ex. is story:
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"-•,-YOu're right on both oounts. I cm .Sad Gardenhire and I
'used to be a Cam puncher when a men had to be a cow eencher and not
pet a ranee hand. :%Ang .eVerything fren sloping hogs to farming,.
Not only the t, but he had to ride ,the first hoes he come to and
cceeldn't be oh Tday. nd, the t was in a' dny when nigh onto every
hose was about helf outlaw. 'ewe, triet all so.IndS prette bad but
when you're lased to anything, it aint so. bad. That's the kind of
life we were used to, so tl-lat's the kind of e life vie
t.ough and teeeh with e -lot of here work throwed in for rood measure.
Now, the end port or Try rrme was give to me by my
kind end levine friends. :They figured because I always went 'round
with a lone foe that I was grieving. or sore thine., The truth is,
T was prole bl.y leughing .at then all the tIe."ea know, billet ing,
:tions,-moody•
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up my sleeve. y reel name is John T. Gardenhire4 and I was born
Jan. 23, 18571. on my dad -'s stook therm in Kaufman Co., :ex. The
nlsoe was just outside Pookwell, which has since beooms the Co. seat
of 7.1.00kwell Co after it was out out of Kaufmll Co. t Viet time,
the place wPs actually i i. out of 9ookwall, but sinoe the town
has growed so, it's only r 1i. out of town.
The reason T knowed for a feot that it was lt miles out
oe town then -is because we lads used to have to go to school in
?ookwall. -y first teoher was Prech Hartman, who later becomes.
judge, and the lea one was George orris. 7 was going to scvtol
to ht.: when I left Rockwell.
left.
I 11,15 e little over 18 then when I
Now, my dad never oared for rwining cattle and would
never hate messed with stook had it not been for my Unole Jordan.
Jordan was a cowboy, end he got dad to. buy a few head before I was
born. bout the time I was born, the plr-o, hed around 1,000 head
in the iron, brnded hip, side, and shoulder. .the stook
sort of went up an down from time to time, having as low PS 95
heed right at the close of the Civil kuying, selling, and
the soldiers tWc.ing what.they-ronded up wore among the reasons
for the uns nd downs.
Pight after the war, I we a right able cowboy since
Jordan hf-A taken me hen I WS8 just a little tag and teu-ht.me to
ride and rope, end Jordan and me branded many e dogie on the Ivnge.
'4Thu see, during the war, there was u shnrtage of r.len to work the
stook and a lot of unbrnded-dogies showed up* ;le ran the herd
up to roound2,500 head at one time.
tr,y brother, Lee Gardpnhire, a couple 01 years younger
wented you to get a
since the place was
war, ,e and me had
not wild hoses but
herd on the- OS ttie,
Phipps. ;oody
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than me, him and ins worked right with. Jordan. 4e went on the r,undups
and everything rany's the experience which if I'd have wrote them
down, would sure be interesting, The trouble rbout that is, thow:
things were usual in that (Icy and ti -le so .nobody thought nothing-.
cbout them.-
Jordan w”s a mighty fpod rider -and roper, too. !le, taught
Lee and me both, besides teching his own son, 7meline 7rardenhire,
who was aboUt 15 Yrs. younger thn me, how to ride !nd rope. -'12'
rerlly beof:ime the best rider aW .roper the family's ever had, and
he won prizes for his work in a nusi)er of rodeos here,. Seymour, and
other pieces.
I've kind -a got off the subject •a little on AO but I Net
sort of baok ground on,me, and my family. Now,
alwpys short handed, end espepially during the
to a man's work, Tad it to do. ce rode bronps,
bronos that'd been buste in by Jordan, rode_
brended, out our beef out of other herds, and
everything a cowboy's sunoosed to do. -e done n11 theta -ost of
the work we hrd to learn by experience.
Thio c•Tle to mind ott of the things be n littl'
fun y.to an old range h.,nd. One time, .7Ordn, tee, and me had ben
roundin7 up a head of Is ar4 I reckon we had around 2(‘O head
when Jordan left us to go to the r,inch house end get enother.branding
iron. I think we'd either lost tk other one. Lost it, broke it,
or s,y.lething. flyway, he lert us. l'er he'd been gone about an
hoo.ra or so, there oome, up one of them 7nat exrs A)eciala,' a
sudden Norther.
The wind began to blow, and get colder, then a cold rein
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begen to fall. ell, -ny old cow puneher knows th.t eattle'll put
their tails to the wind and rain and drift. Aid, nothing'll hold
them beck.. Iley're going to drift and thnt's ell there is to it.
all. r,ee end me knowed was, the herd wee 1p nnd moving arid we
knowed we were su-roosed to .hola it together and on the holding ground.
Aenever a herd begins to move, it'll elwrys have leaders. Lee nnd
me got in front of the lenders and tried our best to turn them into
villa e worked and worked and worked, but try as. we done, we just
colldn't turn the:. 2They'd brv.k in spite of (1.1 we could do, and
follow other leaders. Just Walking end driZtimf, but st1:11 they'd
move. ell, first thing wc knowed, the herd broke up into, two. or
three other sm-ller -herds-. Alen we'd try to corral them 6 gather,
they'd bust up into others 'til the whole she -ben::: was scattered
ell over the range.
This didn't take but 'bout two hours to do, either.
finally saw Jordan miming on the run. Alen he reehhed us, be
hollered out, There'd the stuff go?' a told him what'd happened,
then be laughed at us no herd ns he could. lien he ..-;ot so's he
could tlk, he told us whet the trouble is. e waited 'til the
r -in was over, then went nnd rounded th herd up ain. -his time,
it reined again but Jordan, rdee, and me got in front ot the lenders
and kept our hos as in front of the, slowing then down to a walk.
his wey, when the in stopped in, we bed the'herd together..
-1u know, it o. n rein bO tiries in .)ne dry in exes, and this wts
one of the. kind of days but I don't gu(cd4: it rt,ined over ,fAmut
four times. Just orbo. h to give us a lot of trouble.
Then there was a stem ede during a roundun that was nre ty.
bed. 1 1 the ranchers had pitched in and round d up around 1,500
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head on one of the holding grounds oo only used. "here was only a
few of them with this herd, the rest hevinr, gone ahead with their
work in rounding up the rest of the cattle in that part of the
oountry and'plfroing them on another holding ground obout 10 mile
awe:: frcy:i the one this herd. was on.
There was only two other oow punchers riding herd -besides
7,ec and me, and the rust of them were cutting out, branding, and
turning ther, into the respective herds belonging to each rf:noher
whose cattle were in the herd. You see, all of them had,their men
at work somewhere in the roundups, leaving a few with this herd.
all sir, we were working fA3 hard ca we could when Al of 's su den,
the whole herd started running. T later round out that a skunk had
caused- it by just oorAng up ol se to the herd. low down Akunke
war'-:ed about t o days, I reckon, before we got this
herd back together. new that just goes to show you whet a little
thing it takes to stampede a herd- of cattle, no maer how lit le
or big it is, nor no matter .how mPny :en are workW it. Ile only
and men
differenee nu:lbers in ca:tle/Makes is the time it trkes to regather
the herd.
lag about the time I woe a Mlle over 18 yerrs old,
my Uncle .lorden began to thinking fbout going out to the US Prnoh
in Stephens Co. and working. The is kvnoh was got together by tloYee,
.n big Ft r!orth oattlemon who gave Ike '7iridge a pert of the ranch to
work it. !leder him k partner. Jim and Ike Fridge 'were our kinfolks,
and they'd told Jordan he oould do bet.er with them. !Te finally
told me dad he wee going, so dad then 1:oked 'round for n buyer for
the stook, since he didn't wane. to run stook hisself.
roody
Pangelore
'arrant Co., ',)19.t. 7
T-Ing e
uylor'.)o,gherty, who ranohA at Awney 3tation, a few
miles b. of Dallas, agreed to buy 8C01 heed of dad's stock, range
delivery Now, range delivery meant driving that nuriber to a certain
91000 on a cerVin day, without a count being made. hat's the way
stockmen worked in them days: ?hey'd bay up a big herd, and the man
who sOl(I them the oattle'd drive it to the place without a count and
triebe the buyer never saw his stock.ror.weeks, months, or maybe never.
.,ust tll it -gain o somebody else who'd dive it on somewhere else.
.A4nyt cattlemen not only count but take the poundage.
Uot being a an who'd take a oh nee, my dad merit with the
herd ,x14 insisted on a telly.. lie hnd e few he -d over BOO when the
tally wet made. ilan,_ded just throwed tht in because Ol;4 was all
,1)ougherty'd contracted for.
.4.11,. sir. then the pay off came, dad and hiae went into
a bunkhouse with i:ougherty. J'ordan and me stnyed outside with the
twp other punchers who'd helped us make the drive. Then they were
through, we left the %)ugherty pleoe. I noticed ee we awful-
thoUghtgul On the wLy home, and when we got to our selves, I Asked
him what'd heeene,_. 'Yu see, dad never talked business in rront of
anybody but who he was dealing with.
Do you kn-w, Thee seiG thnt when they got into the bunk-
house, aougherty reeohed under one of the fl,)or bunks and pulled
out rn Old saok,made with bed tiokink. It we a big speck, and he
paid ded lb.00 a herd for every head. paid every dollar of it in
bunk
gold, then throied the bag back under the/VU vs muoh ns you and
me'd toes a slipper under our bed. Not only that, but the bag
was far,from empty after he paid dad. INIow, let me ask you' something.
Just ho* lowed that bag lest in this day and tine? Not w-uld
it?
Phip)s, 4foody
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Finally came the day when Jordan and me lit out or the US
in 3tephens Co. hn we got there, they put us both right on as cow
punchers, him et top hand. e got 430.00 a month and chuck,' end I got
25.00 a month end chuck. Now, I don't know es I ever did !,:now just
how many heed the Raneh rent but -I can give you a pretty close
estimate by how many heed we drove out of Stephens When the US :toved.
This woe about the ti -le I was 22 end 'the raison was because
the Deggetts wanted- to lenve Stephens. 'you see, the Diu-.,tts ought
out old man !!!oYee. 7ud and John Daggett's father was oi-14041107tO old
men. "cee's wife. T don't recell just what the da-1 was, but I 'do
recall that the first drive out of 3tephens was on iept. 18, 1879,
end there were 4,300 heed in the drive. The drive lasted about three
weeks, and then we had to come beck every pring for about four years.
to clean up the rest of the.MT stock in_tephens. 'ou see, no
roundup can geL every head beosuee wild cattle are about the ea4!Jest
animal ever was next to wild hosses, which have been tops ever since
tile ben.
The new ranch site was at the he clot' the LIttle Axhita
niver in Finylor Co, about 13 Mi. F. of Seymour. Now there was a
little more to the 7,:t3 brand just Uarning the br7,nd on hip, side,
end shoulder. There wee the ear crop thet couldn't be burnt over,
hut could be crolmd into another erop. he IS ear cron was this:
they ran a half eircle under the ear, orOP
then crop and under half crop to the left.. he rerson for this wes
because there wee Just r, whole lot of brand turning going on in tiPlt
part of the country at that tie, and more then just .a br-ild was
necessary.
and underbit to the right,
Now, in the 47 years I wee with the '8„ n whole lot of
Phiops, Y!ooey
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things tolk place tht couldn't possibly rew11. I'm just going
to give you e picture-ofa few or the hiehlights. 7o -say there were
stempedes is laughable. Mere were 160s of stampedes that I was in
myself.. 'Not by myself, but I 'ORS in them. Now A stampede can hapnen
anytime you hove e sizable herd rouned up. 'nd, the "re some dis.
coroding. ince I think everybody oueht to know a little about
then, 7'm going to tel you ebout one of them.
Durine one 7e1- roundup, we had bout 1,200 head rounded
up end bedded down. The nilht wee as pretty a night e 8ever- you'll
nee in life time. Fverybody was at peace, laying down around the
ohuok wagon with one of the boys fiddline a tune ene another singing
,it. In fact, as I look beck over that sooner, if there'd been a poet
there, he'd have be -n able to make a right good poem out of that nieht.
Alone about 10 o:olook, one of the night riders oame in for a cup ,of
coffee. ,iow, that's one thing we waddles bed a -plenty of. coffee.
air, he got down, stretched his legs, was pouring himself a cup
when his noes suddenly shook hlsself. Now, anybody'thet's familiar
with hoses, know that a hos shekee hisself the same as a men likes
to stretch or yawn.. The trouble about this though,' was thetradiket
the saddle made in the striking/
sonre6 one of the critters and it jumped ue and snorted. !nother
snorted, and there they went. Tlell-bent-for.peleotion.
:Then you have a stampede, the usual way to stop it is to
get the *critters running in a circle. :hat way, they can run 'til
they're plum run down. he way to get them circlin,7 is for some
wady to et to the leader and ,:;ork on him with his rope, het, or
something 'til the critter starts in another dlrrotion. 2hen keep
going 'til he's running wide enough a,oircle thf: herd'll follow
him and then wind up running in a cirile. This night though we
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milled that ornery herd e eoZen tines, I Waive, but every time
they'd mill, one .of them'd manage to bust through and start off.
egain, then the herd'd roller- him. e worked all night long in n sppoe
rblt ii a vuare before the herd ever run aown. --7wo hoses fefl
end were stomped to deeth by the herd, ,their ridere just missine:.b:,
scent feet getting into it thamselvea. One'rider broke his leg in
ff1.1 from>his hot, any number, had sprnins, and everybody had
A
scratches eT1 over them. One helluva nightl
If it hadn't have been that the ,1S made era° ide of
ke-ping noth,ng but able henes there were any number .of times when
every head.they'droundd up would've been scattered by stem eden
like this. Of curse, 100s of cow punchers lit on the t33 from tine
to tine and worked for a spell, so I can't give -ou the nemes of
nil of then, even though -1 believe I could give me a little time„
•:'!o, 1 culdn't name ell of them -even then. Of the regulerevold
herds T. mean by.thvt that worked a long ti m there ere only two
alive todey.'
!e'rlet ,'ortwood, a 3e1r7.our millionaire, and me. r!erley
never was what you'd dell bronc- buster,' but he'd rid, when he
had to, and he had to every spring because for the roundups, they'd
cut you out -round eight hoses, and you had to ride theFT1 or else-.
-therwiset he'd never rAle e brond if he knowed it :irst.
John !!erkhem Wes another of the regulars. -7'e died with
his boots on. He ens about the same sob I was when he hired out to
:the US to help make the .drive to Paylor. ioon-efter he cri:ne on,
enotlier -weedy from down -Tort ortt wey, are thrcy_igh end told us
ab:..;t John. .rohn cale up fron ilot -'aint, in Denton. Co. T:e'd
'ben tending bar there, and one night ahen there was al dance going
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on, a couole touh gunmen by the name of 'rerrison and -Aipnett,
blew ci7or smoke in his Thee. 7e cussed them end dared them to
dr,.1 their smoke wagons. hey looked at eroh other, one winked,
'then they both drawed. his inn that told the story on John acid
he nctually waited for their guns to clerr the leather before he
drug his, then he frot both of theca without even ,getting e tichatch
hisself. efl, neture'ly, thut's a lot of action and we didn't
believe or not belly° right then because suCh things went on all
the ti:ae in sore pert of the country in th t dry and time. -Ater
on though, we Eat other reports -on Che thin end then one day
John hisself unloedec: the story. 7t ell tellied up.
John was a good ell around range hand. e could dloot,
ride or rope ,qith 'MP best in the country. I ref:mil one night
when he PONe-in drunk after all the rest g usi were pounding our
ears. e woke up to what sounded like the battle of rmegeddon.
It wee John, and be was sh.otinc his six sho'Aers into tho fire'
plce. nere akinping -round r.11 over the place. .":e
sure hnd to get high behind to keep the bunkhouse from burning
down.
John met hisHaterloo in ',1oodard, 'Okla., after the US
n,1.1 roundup one yr. -.rou see, in the winter, most of the waddles
took tr p somewhere or other. Ur, they'd go to sone town and
stay drunk 'til they -spent their_ wad. nythinr to mnke whoopee.
'host invariably, they'd cot to gw%bling too. ell air, John
Wt:8 in on Ei same with e couple of fe'llers and -a one armed gambler
by the neme of .olford. NowtWOlfbrd 1ready had a tough rep'
for killing several men, and hnd 1st his left ar7. in a sorap in
which he-c),ome of best inn at that, for the other died. Since I
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don't know enoughabout that to tell it stra102t,.I/11 skip- it end
tell y:.)la about hin and johns During the gene, John caught .olford
cheating. ''et stood up and'ouseed him bed.- ”e done that, knowing
tht he had left his gAis in his hotel room and :7olford was armed.
•olford jerked his six shooter out and almost had it leveled on
John when. he caught olford's exam. olford was a big min and awful
strong in his good arm so John couldn't do so much wiy him. ':hey
fought around in the. saloon, turning- over tables and breahing chairs,
then fought out the front door and plum aorocf! the street. John
otilbled over swathing and fello'ind thrt gave'olford a chance
to :7..et his gun going, which he -done. 'very 'shot went into john's
head and me sed it up mots you couldn't tell who it was if you
hadn't seen bin before thrt hgpnened
Jeff Coates was another of the re7u1nre that died, with
his boots on* Jeff WeS auch a tough -ohmmeter th't he made a good
wild •boss buster, which he done an awful 1 t of. 7!any's the hose
r seen him -rust that others gave up as outleTs. Just gave up and,
quit. hen they' 4 go get Jeff cndhe'd bust them. :he only ones
he tailed to bust were the ones that he adaldently lost his bolt
on and fell of:. :hey'd '.:.urn around and start to stomp him, then
he'd jlatk his six shooter and and shoot the brute. Fe was that
quick on his gun tht none of -them ever reached him and they were
quick as lt:htning. course, if one of ther bed reached him;
he'd Ilave'never lived to tel the ele.
Jeff wes also in ,.[oodard when he diG, ith his hoots on.
1.fter one Fall roundup, him and several other wed(ies took around
330 stockers to the Cowan TInch right out of oOderd. fter the
delivery, Jeff proceeded to get drunk. ')n the way into town, a
'Phipps, (3(ly venge
enneclore
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law by by the' neee o* 7,ipanpig, or so —e dutch neme like thnt-that ended
•in ig,'tried to dra•w .*eff's fangs before he eot into town. :low
.ierf is never a man to ,give in to nobody, so he gave the law an
ereueent. The-lew shot :Teel' without eivine him .a ohanc to go for
hie nun. ny nephew, :i', hnd a friend of .his send hie. dieeram of
just how the whole thine-, henpened end all.
74u0e and flen Atchell were two brothers who were regulars,
end :lie Clements was enother. These fellers were good clew eunahers
butrieuesefthey done fr,oin7 to do. hey died in bed.
Snenkine of eheetine end the telgh life and all, there was
quite a bit of brand burning cling- on to', as T said, *',!'olv, I don't
know whether nobody ever explained it to yol how they done or not,
so !.-a eoine to give you a counle of sneeles. enmeles that were
one lived.
"'Merk Teeen run the big outfit on nouble t., and
his stook naturally drifted 9., The rnshknife euteat that run' just"
7. of hie and as many or more -critters, their brend was made like
this:
'or quite a while there in *.leylor, there was an unusuel
ameent of rustline eeine pe but nobody could be -osueht doing
litele free and fancy wet.roeing. t ot there so's everybody wee
puseioioning everybedy else and it just wasn't no treble aall
.to rig ars a saran at en:' ttee.
Now, these fellers ate sti.l livine and T don't eil to
hUrt nobody, so 7 wont give you their Trees, but they done quite a
bit of night ridinp and rustling on their own with the enrties
:lesrmission whose cattle they were ape -king out: They figured thet
if they rustled theirseltes, the real rustler e rould make- themselves
'Phipps, optiy
Pangelore
-2arrent. Co., Dist.
•:olge
ind, etre enough. Just as they fLgured. ,'he y got the dead-
wo)d on ?yson, who ran the Smoking V iron. lmn they looked
his herd over, found number of suspiotous looking brutes, killed
them, took .their hides right into the Irtind jury where the old brands
could be reap. d'had so much- end everything, and it was such
a hard fight thnt he got off soott-free. 7% had to deed hiseranch
over to those who'd 1..St stock and leave the country forever.
Now FInofl<. the burnt bronds in his herd were sorr of the
Tis and !OlsWmives, ile'TAIL looked like this when made into the
3moking 1:4RP, and the 7ashknife lo)ked like this when med- into
Galled the Club Bar
Thy saving my'money leAlc I was working, I as in a fair
-Nay to ,.let me a ranch of my. -911R started. !".y stuff ran with the
US stuff, and put ny folks up' in a hou e t.bout 10 1. out of
'oymour toarde the JS herAquerters on the .1.ttle -iohita. -ow,
since all the fellera called me Sad,' I hought it'd be a good
stu to brtnd my critters with that name, which J done. First,
1 burnt an 0 on the' oritter's side, then about half n foot
to grds the ()litter's head, I burnt the letters- SAD,' which
when you rerd it, it looked like two words: 0 lien. my
ear crop wes -carol° on the neck, swallow fork the right ear,
nnd underslope the left ear, might say, that I never caught
anybody burning my br-nd over. In all, I had 443 head in the-
tely when I hnd to sell. You .see, Daggett and :!(Wee lensed all
tft t free grnss oountry up and you might say it we a forced sale.
I sold my stuff to John and d Cobb at :9.00 head. 7het was
in 121 when T had to sell.
I've nbout covered the rencAng period, I reckon.
Phipps, oody
Bangalore
Tarrant eo., Dist. !7
e '14
would like to tell you one on etm :Regoner before 1 quit, though.
flow the liggoner people were neighbor ranchers with the tee ranch,
and we'd see quite e bit'of one another. T'eny's the time IT've seen
ole een Algeoner.coming out of :eecntur hehine a big spen of
Cleveland latcs. 'le Sure liked to have the beet hosnes money
could buy. :Mem, the goners kept getting ble-er es %ime wore
on. Ahere was a ti: -.e• when on eggoner owned everything'in rlectre
but the :fhe !Ie'd leve owned that but the 7;overnment wouldn't let
him. -'")ne day, I wee in one of his stores when ho wee there and be
made the retark thet he liked ‘.2,00,000.00 h -vine as much money
as ,he wentede. ene of his riders said, ell, r. f-leeneer, if
you had all t e t money, what would you do with it?'
aid, I'd buy me n strip of lane bier-- into. vort
eorth so's T could ee, in without hnving to get off my own -lend.'
tfter 27.yenrs with the 7T;1 T finally decided to -eet
into BOMB other kind of business and went to .7velde where T. opened
upe reel estate businese. I stayed with it for three yeers, then
oeened up me a grocery store at Loyd. Ietnyeti with the store for'
11 Jeri's, then camp to -lort Art1-: end haven't done me a lick of
work e! crly kind sinoc. xcepting a- garden T rise every year to
Well my mind of thpt old rooktne thet's eetting too darn
inviting ae the years pes