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EARLY DAYS.,j -----1 Paper Read Before Jefferson County1, Historical Society byW. H. Sullivan.In the early settlement of lovva there are many things which crowd on the memory most interesting to recall. The writer can well remember many happy days passed with his brothers and playmates and he sometimes wonders if others have such a longing as his for those boyhood days and delights. It seems good to reflect upon the joys of those days, although no one can understand the great hardships and trials of a frontier life except those who have helped turn the wilderness to a fertile and prosperous country. They can not comprehend tin* great differ ence between the many things of lif ty and sixty years ago and now. I hen our clothing was all homespun, the wool was grown and the rolls were carded and spun at home. The cloth woven and made up by hand by the old fireplace with the tallow candle or the old grease lamp to give light. Well can I remember my old mother with her little wheel and cards as she would sit for hours at her work carding and spinning, doing her best to keep us children as comfortable as possible, while father looked after the other necessaries of life.Everyone in those days made it a business to furnish meat for the fam ily—wild meat. I remember well the first time 1 went hunting alone. I was a small boy and my older brother loaded the gun and gave me the required instructions how to use it and I started out. General Sherman at the head of his army never felt so great as I did on that occasion. A short distance from the house by accident I killed a rabbit and then I had glory enough for that day and 1 hurried back home to show what I had done. But in after years when 1 was older I killed many deer and turkey.rPL .. O r r ♦ ♦ ll n ♦ ir u t' i 11 1 1 i I i ilir
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 28, 1909
Page 5
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