| ing?" I told her that
I had been back down over the crop and that it just wouldn't pay off.
She said, "You know what I would do if I were you? We have
good credit at the bank. I would go and borrow enough to pay off
everything we owe." That sounded good to me. I hadn't even
thought about borrowing money. I felt that it was the wrong time of
the year to borrow. It was time to be paying what we had already
borrowed! Nevertheless, I tried my wife's suggestion and by golly it
worked!
I went to my banker and told him my troubles that the drought had brought on me. He told me that I could borrow all the money I needed. To stop worrying and go back home and gather what crop I had and spend it on the family. That maybe next year we could have a good crop year. TAKING OUT THE STUMPS In 1941, I was raising a lot of cattle and all of my land was new and full of trees. I needed at least forty acres free of stumps. I took on the task of digging out the stumps. I started off just digging out five stumps a day. That was the task I gook on. My wife gave me the horselaugh. She thought that I would give up the whole idea in a few days. I kept on with my stumps. When I would get my five stumps dug out, I would stack my tools and go to the house, my day's work done. Sometimes, after our noon meal, I would only have one stump to dig out and then I would have most of the afternoon to read and or see about my cattle. Pretty soon, I decided to take on a greater number of stumps per day, so I would not have so much time to waste away. I raised my task up each day by one stump a day until I got up to eleven stumps a day. I just kept on digging! I worked at it just like I was making two dollars an hour. Actually I was making much more, for I would have forty acres on which I could grow hay for my stock. I would have land I would sow. 44 |