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Leaving Kansas
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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On our trip from Kansas to Texas we camped Xmas Eve in Denison, Texas - spent Xmas day there.
I remember well Dad Mosty had a sick head ache that day. Sat there on the wagon tongue vomiting - that was the rst time I can remember feeling sorry for anyone - I couldn’t understand why Old Santa could not nd us there - I had been told so many stories about the Old Fellow & saw his pictures. In Kansas we always looked out the window & could see his big tracks in the snow coming to the house & leaving again.
At that time & age I learned two things that took all the joy out of ...
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...my life. One was learning where money had to come from & the other that there was no Santa. From that time on I had no fun, no pleasures & did not get any joy out of living. Lived the rest of my life in debt & that was the family discourse at every meal & all my waking hours - “What we were going to do when we got out of debt & a home paid for.”
Lee & I quit school for this reason & were to go back to school just as soon as the house was paid for. I worked hard from 10 years old till I was 24. Did a grown man’s work from 12 on and when I left home on Feb 1st, 1909 ...