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Show llour wu .-,,be Te:q low ~ JI.an,' .. mlHtra ot tb.e _qQ!llpe..nJ' Wl"e rattoniJt,& out t)Htir 8Upplj.ea t tllil :praet1•• .., tather refUM to toUow, .mskin& the atat•ent "lt I be.Te ·t• work 11.k• a hor••• l wu, what I oan eat 8l>.4 it l ha'Y• to st&rff• I waat to t.o tbat quiokly." b.•1.clutl:, a wgaa •1th 1uppl1es nac:t:he4 th• compa• kton -, tatller1 • flour ns entirely ,.,. •• Our first house •• a log oa.bia ecmta1n1AC one moa, with a 41n roof and dirt tlocr, one amall dn4ow8.Dd one door. then were ao brioka or a4obes 1n thoae t.a,a. ' 'he only light •• had al that ti.a•, was the light trca the tire plaOO la whioh we burne4 nat1Te "pito~ pine• aad "eeJe.r" broupt to the Julllle trca 1utar)f toot hill•• I do aot rtm•b•:r ! I, the date llibea eleotrie lights were ttrst tatroduoe4. The only tuel · uaed tor man7 7ear• •• the · u.tlT• tbl'ber bulecl .~ 1'ralll 1u,-ar'b7 hi~•• thil w atec.npltsM4 with our ox-teau, ~taa 11• to three 487• tor on• loa4. raS.aed. oa our on tiel4a. ngetabl•• ot the oommoa aon were al .. aTail- . . , abh and the•• oou.1ate4 mainly of paranlpa, oal'l"Ota, po'\atOM, tlle ti.rat ,we•taiq t reoolleot and all we -4 •• ,he Jul••.•t th.e J>U•JaiJ ltc>U.e4 do• to the oouletenoy of a SJ'ftp; thla "7pe ot n8' •• the tlrat uae4 u 88Jllet• couat7. Ia nppl.J1na ov•lvoa with .flour, 1' wa, ••••••UT tor ua to take oar whoa.t to RepU, b.o,r,a "1l .. aa Sal' ONok, 8ftr the onq · road aTaile..blo whieh wn't troa Bpllrata., aou'Ul 1io Qu:ni-,n; these trip• tor flour wre alway• macl.• b. P""P• of tt.,. to |
