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family but Jewel did the rest. Forest and Tut are faithful about coming to see Della and I almost every two weeks and he is a Deacon in their church so the church furnishes big boxes of bread, white, wheat, brown bread, rolls, cinnamon rolls, cookies, well, all kinds of things. Cakes, pies and even sandwiches some times all is fresh and good so Della divides it around among her children and neighbors and of course she keeps enough for our own use. Puts it in the freezer. It keeps us from having to buy bread. As the old saying every little is a help. As the old woman said when she peed in the millpond to drown her old man, every little is a help. I just threw that in for laughs.
One verse of a song
When I'm dead and laid away, will you plant one flower upon my grave. Plant a rose bud at my head and a tombstone at me feet and that's where your darling one has got to lie. Oh; the other day half past four the hearse came rolling by my door, it was taking my darling one away. Oh; I'd give this world today if my baby was yet astay, but you'll never miss your baby until she's gone
This was composed by Charlie Davis after his Indian girlfriend was killed on the Flying Trapeze, as he and she had been with the Barnum and Baily show for years. He had her picture and she was a beautiful girl. Not too dark an Indian and just a lovely shape. So after she was killed he left the show and started traveling on foot, so he stopped at my fathers place and wanted to know if we could put him up for the night and of course as usual, the answer was yes. So he stayed on for quite awhile as brother Jay took him to work with him in the log business. He was a good worker and behaved well until Christmas Eve night a crowd of us were sitting in the living room, Emma playing the organ and Charlie picking his guitar also a harp (mouth organ as some people called it)
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