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So Jay took after me in the horse & wagon and ran over the pile of straw and when he did they covered Dandy the horse, and he took Jay for a ride, it looked like he had wings, so when Jay finally got him under control he came in where Stella was bathing my knee in antiseptic and he said don't you want to run again? and I said don't you want to take another ride like that? Then the worst part of it was I was laid up in bed for two weeks with my left knee swollen to where it looked like three knees instead of one and running temperature. Those days people didn't believe in giving patients solid food, only a light diet. So one day my daddy and Stella went to Arthur Murphy's funeral and as soon as the left, I went into the kitchen and she had cooked a big pot of collar greens and boy did I enjoy those greens and Johnny cake. (Journey)
The only difference in Johnny cake and Journey cake is that you put sugar in the Journey cake. That was all the Yankees had to eat, that and their canteen of water and my daddy said many times they wouldn't have anymore water in their canteens so he said many times he'd gotten down off from his horse and sucked the muddy water up out of his horse's tracks. My fathers sword in it's leather case and his leather bag that Ik> carried his Journey cake in was still hanging on the wall in the big room upstairs when the old home burned. No one had time to get anything out with the exception of a few Curtis' suits and a very few other articles. Sister Laura was living at the old home at the time it burned and her son Curtis who had come out of service had come to live with her and her husband, Asa. Curtis had contracted T.B. while in service so Asa had one end of the front porch screened in for his sleeping quarters but it was too late, he never lived long after that but left his mother his pony and buggy and also a small pension. Curtis was her oldest son. She had twin boys after him. I believe I have already told about Nasa taking over all of our old home places and we all had to hunt another place to live. I don't think any one has ever been happy since that.
My father had a large pecan orchard and also two kinds of pear trees in the field from the lane at the house to the main highway where Nasa has the water running dirough from the Pearl River from Gainesville, Miss. Some of those pecan trees are still standing but so much rubbish has grown up all around them until they cannot bear. When I think back of the good old times we sisters and two brothers used to have, it
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