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We let Earl Brealand and his family use it for a week and they bought awnings for the two side doors. When those barges came through they ruined everything. The men never even apologized much less offered to pay for the damage they'd done. This is the biggest part of the story of the house boat. Oh! I did think of one other time when we had a good time on it before anything ever happened to it. Steve and Buddy took it way up above Gainesville one week end and Willie invited Jay Warren and Mildred his wife to come and go on it with us so they did and I had carried a half dozen squirrels that it took two or three hours to cook them tender enough to be eaten. I made a gravy and put plenty of onions and smothered them in the gravy until they came all to pieces nearly and cooked a big pot of grits for a long time and I didn't have it dry or soupy either. I was just right. I made biscuits and Steve had gone on ahead of us and had a bunch of young squirrels killed and cleaned ready to fry when we got there. So Mildred and I fried a heaping platter full and we had grits, squirrel gravy, fried squirrel hot (cat heads) as Steve called them, biscuits of course, and we all ate until we were ashamed of ourselves. After that every time Jay Warren would see us he'd mention that supper. We had a lot of fun that night as Steve and Lilly May hadn't been married long and she was tired so she went on to bed in the back room and she kept calling him to come on to bed as she was scared and he'd tell her all kinds of boogery things was going to climb in one of those windows after her. All the men were sitting out on the front porch talking and Mildred and I were sitting at the table talking over our girlhood days. I'll always remember that night.
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