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While we were still on the old home place after our fathers death my brother and I would spent the rainy, cold and wet days out in the woods that was on the place cutting down trees cutting blocks in 18 inch lengths and then splitting them into small stick for stove wood and by the time that bad weather was over we would have a pile of stove wood at our wood pile about 12 or 15 feet wide and about 25 or 30 high, than when we would get started after the bad weather in our crop we wouldnt be detained from our crop to cut stove wood,  we had a very big fire place that burned blocks of wood about 3 or 4 feet long,  We would go out into the field and dig up stumps from trees that had been cut down dig these out and split them into half and put them into this fireplace and sometimes they would burn several days before they burned up.  On this fire place my mother in bad weather would do all her cooking on this or in this fire place.  she skillets, one for frying and another for baking she would take the skillet put lard in the bottom put her biscuits in than put the lid on the skillet and then place live coals from the fire and lay them on top of the skillet and the bread would bake just light as could be, than she would rake the ashes back from the fire and place some sweet potatoes in the fire place and then place hot ashes over the potatoes and then some live coals on top of the ashes and you would have some fine eating all in the warm room of the house,  she had a small table  that she would bring in the room for us to eat off of  we would sit there and eat our warm meal in a warm room.  She had a great big pot that she would hang in the fire place just over the blaze but, just over the fire to boil her beans in and it didnt make any difference how cold it was outside we would eatcomfortable inside.  This house that my grandfather built was started out with one log room out from the trees on the place and as years went on he add another room to it until he had a 9 roomed house. the main log room was weather boarded on both side of the walls and had a double floor in it, my mother rented an old rag carpet loom and made her a rag rug.  after she finished it and was ready to place it on the floor, she had us to place hay on the floor first and then she had us to place newspapers over the hay then stretch the rug over the papers and we tacked the rug to the floor so it wouldnt be slipping around all the time and with that double walls and the carpet rugs on the floor we certainly had a warm room to live in.  Our front door was a double door.  one of the doors was fastened to the floor and then the other one would fasten to this door and our front porch was bout 30 ro 40 feet long and we had one room on the proch that was as long as the porch and the other one was just half the distance and the shorter side of the porch.   I took some telphone wire and some wooden barrels staves and wove the staves into this wire making me a hammock.  I fastened one end of this hammock to the corner of house or corner of this short room and the other end to one of the porch posts than I would throw a quilt on the hammock with a pillow and their is where I slept for about 9 months out of the year until real cold weather arrived.

We had an old morris chair that belonged to my grandmother, the back of this chair would recline backwards and there was a foot rest in front so you could let the back lay down and pull out the foot rest throw a quilt over the chair and it made a pretty good bed to sleep in.  one night in late December my brother Ben was sick with the ever day chills and he had to have his medicine day and night both.  I was sleeping in this chair one night I had just got up and give him his two AM dose of medicine and lay back down when I heard some one come through the front gate and come walking down the walk to the house, I heard them step up on the porch and walk to the door and rattle the door knob,  I called to uncle Thornt that I would open the door for him,  because he came by a great deal that

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