| Show T held up the new dress again and thought of all the wonderful thingscould do in it Parties plays and dates There were sc many new experiences waiting for me Mother had shown me how to pack the dresses so that they would not be too wrinkled It would savelot of ironing with those heavy irons that had to be heated on the stove Everything was loaded into the Model including my trunk sack of coal and several boxes It wasfull load With Mother and Dad myself and my niece Wanda Onwarm Sunday afternoon in the early fall we drove away from the house and headed for Ephraim About half way there we approachedvefy narrow bridge which crossedbig wash Another car was coming toward us and just as we reached the bridge it swerved and crowded us so that Dad had to turn suldenly tipping us off into the wash We rolled and tumbled boxes and trunk flying in the alr and it seemed like an eternity of commotion until we finally came to rest the car on its top and all four wheels in the atr looked around and saw my trunk lying in the water and was frantic about my clothes just knew that they were all Tuined Soon people arrived up to the road wherewe could see what damage die if the dresses were whichthoughtcould at the scens and carried the trunk insisted that it be opened so that had been done feltwould just ruined especially the favorite one never do without The 1id was opened and all my fears were realized There in the trunk laymass of soggy clothes was sure that nothing worse could ever happen to me Nother didn seem that concerned about them she was only thankful that no one was hurt She said she would take the dresses all home and wash them and bring them to me the next week went on to Ephraim with Hopefolks was miserable for me withoutlot of time to think about parents and all they had done wreck and realized how easily or killed remembered how and over into that wash It The first week my mew clothes but it gave me my life and especially about my for me thought about the they could have been badly hurt frightening it was rolling over wasfeelingwould never forget 45 |
