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"Another thing I remember about that readin' snake. One time they was goin' to be some doin's for the soldiers. We had loads of lemons and sugar for lemonade, an' what do you think that worm boy did?

"In our yard was a water box where the cows and horses drank. It was always full, and he took those lemons out there, and bushels of sugar. When his mother found him, he had every lemon cut up in the water and was just stirring in the last of the sugar. He said he didn't see why the horses and cows couldn't have lemonade as well as the soldiers.

"He went to bed straight, I can tell you!

"I can only remember one more thing, that was when my mother's people came West. They sold