Favorite Long Quote/Extract I don’t remember it myself, but my family swears there was a time when I was caught sucking a sow. I was about three years old, and we had a sow who had fewer pigs than she had nipples. Well, she was lying under a snowball bush with her litter and there was an empty place at dinner, so I fell in with the pigs and got myself a nice, plump teat. I was soon discovered and quickly removed from the sow with considerable embarrassment, more to my mama than to me. I don’t know that there’s anything to it, but some have suggested that there could be some connection between that incident and the way I developed later in life. If a sow’s objective is to fatten up her offspring, then she would have been mighty proud of the way her temporary one turned out.
Favorite Long Quote/Extract People have often asked me how we girls managed any privacy in a house with
so many boys and no private rooms. It was difficult. We used to bathe with a
washcloth from a pan of water. We would first start with our necks and faces
and wash down as far as possible. Then we would wash the road dust from our
feet and wash up as far as possible. Later, when the boys were out of the
room, we would wash “possible.”
