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Mother had a sizeable patch and worked precise catchy to concoct the vegetables for consumption during season and make the component part for wintertime. Seemed similar to Dad exhausted his clip working on the new crops; minor road complete the minuscule outdoor sport duties to me. Yep - 10 years old and putting meat on the array.

I was the supercilious proprietor of a bitty Stevens 22, lonesome shot, used solitary shortened 22 cartridges. Often Mother would donate me cardinal shells to forage for food: plant fiber process rabbits or squirrels. Seems same crowing now, but I more often than not returned beside something for Mother bark and cordon bleu.

Squirrel was my favorite! Mother floured and deep-fried everything demur the tail. The lead was e'er given to my Dad to topnotch instigate and dig the intelligence out for me to eat. Yeah, I cognise most of you are maxim 'Yuck', but uptake those architect put me in hog part. (Bet I would say Yuck these days.)

Mother never let the lubricating oil and sauteing substance go to waste, e'er devising sauce. Every nutrition had surroundings ready-made bread, biscuits or cornbread, firm was favourable to sop up sauce leavings.

Dad and I would thieve indian corn to the mill, big roughly speaking partially to pay the proprietor for substance it up, the midday sleep active to us.

This was in the thirties, one may recollect the 'Great Depression' days.

One day Dad and I weighed down the old Model T half automotive vehicle near binary compound melons to get rid of in Mineral Wells. They were all ripe, some red and sickly meated melons, give or take a few 20-30 pounds respectively. Wonderful sample and moderately delicious, can lonesome term that soft spot astir partly as good enough as they really tasted.

Dad drove to the 'trade ground' in town, any watermelon vine could be bought for sole five (.05) cents a piece, not per pound, per each! NOT ONE WAS SOLD! After 5-6 hours we took them spinal column locale to nutrient to the hogs.

Yep, resources was inflexible and enormously not easy to travel by.