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Show 210 "Girls, " he called. "Put on that record I like. " We knew which one it was: "Let's grow old together. We will weather life together, you and I, " so we put it on. When it was through he called out: "Play it again, 'y golly, that's a pretty tune." We played it again, and yet again, then he jumped up. "I'll be through with the water this afternoon at three-thirty. Then I'll go to the doctor. " He had had the water fifty hours, first on the lot, then on the seven acres, then at the farm, with no rest in between. He got on his horse and left. We were putting on a quilt on the lawn and I was hooking a rug, pleasant work under the shade of the trees he had planted when they added onto the house. At the farm, Papa set Ervin and Grant to shocking grain and he went on with the watering, finished it by three-thirty. The boys were almost through shocking grain so he gave them a hand to finish. "Now come down to the corral and we will rest a few minutes, then Grant, you take my horse and round up the team. We'll hook up and you boys go to hauling grain. I'll go home. " Accordingly, they stretched out in the shade of the long-unused stable and went to sleep. After while Papa raised up and woke Grant. "Go now,"he said. "Get the horses and I'll go home. " Grant went, but returned without the horses some time later. Papa and Ervin were still lying down, Papa with his face in his arms, lying on his stomach. |