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Show 29 Grandma rushed in and pulled back the covers. There was a full-term baby boy doing his best to intake his first breath of air. "Good Land, Lizy! You've got a baby! " Eliza raised up and looked at her off-spring, lay back down and took a nervous chill. "What shall we do? What shall we put on him?" Grandmother wanted to know, equally as excited. The upshot of it was that when Walter got back from town on a fruitless search for the midwife he was dispatched to Mama's, so that Walter Glen wore Macel Jane's diapers before she did. The railroad was a convenient highway for the women to push their baby buggies, but one day as they were chatting along between the two farms in the middle of the dirt path between the rails, with Eldon in the buggy there was a slight sound behind and the women were startled to see the train almost upon them. One grabbed the baby and got off the track, leaving the buggy in front of the train, which coasted by them, pushed the buggy down into the right-of-way without hurting it. The engineer was reading a magazine and never looked up. With the proximity of Mama's folks she was more content to stay on the farm, but they still had to move to town when it was time for the children to enter school. They rented the "Leavitt home" and the "Jackman home" in turns. They were both close to canals, the terror of mothers in summer, but the Leavitt home was between two canals. When a child was missing the parents raced along the canal |
