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Show Rose (1/1?/83) page 19 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R came back to New York,and that's when I was introduced to my father, a.d ?hen I saw him again maybe 4 or 5 years later,and then when I was ••• What did he do, do you remember? What kind of work was he doing? He had been an apnrentice as a young kid in England as a tailor. When he came to this country, he went to work as a tailor and opened a little shop of his own, and then when he went west he went to work with a fellow in Montana who was a furrier, and then he went out in the fur business. As a matter of fact, I don't know anythinQ about the man that he went to work for except his name, and now I can't recall it, but I have something of his. When my father ·.T\,"lf"' left~ at least this is the story my father told me, when my father left him he gave him a silver railroad watch, and I have that watch. That watch has to be 100 years old, it's gotta be 100 years old. It's a rare watch? Yeah, because this furrier worked on the railroad as a young man and had had the watch when he was an old man. He might even have died, I don't know what it was at the time he was going out of business or so~ething and he gave it to my father. When my father died I took it, I was the only son, so I took the watch, and I wear it. Anyway, then the last summer before I graduated high school, my father sent me a ticket to visit him in Casper, Wyoming, and I spent a ~onth, 5 weeks or something like that, in Casper. Then when I left the hospital my father sent me a ticket to join him in •• I can't remember the name of the town, but anyway, it was in the southwest corner of Wyoming. So I did. |
