. Sixty years in Texas. hren, and felt in duty bound to help each other,and Mr. Marsh, the father of the late Thomas andDave Marsh of this county, proposed to let my fatherhave three acres to sow in wheat; and Mr. R. , the father of the late Judge West and JohnWest of this city, agreed to rent us six or eight acresfor corn. These old people have long gone to theirreward, but they remained our friends until the dayof their death, and such friends were a blessing toall that knew them as we did. We made a very goodcrop of wheat and threshed the first out with a flail,and ground it with our
. Sixty years in Texas. hren, and felt in duty bound to help each other,and Mr. Marsh, the father of the late Thomas andDave Marsh of this county, proposed to let my fatherhave three acres to sow in wheat; and Mr. R. , the father of the late Judge West and JohnWest of this city, agreed to rent us six or eight acresfor corn. These old people have long gone to theirreward, but they remained our friends until the dayof their death, and such friends were a blessing toall that knew them as we did. We made a very goodcrop of wheat and threshed the first out with a flail,and ground it with our hand-mill. That was the 32 Sixty Years in Texas. sweetest bread that I ever remember of eating. Ourcorn crop had to be cultivated. We broke up theland with oxen, and planted the corn. The rented land was situated about 3V^ milesfrom our cabin, and on Sunday evening we two orthree of us boys would ride an old gentle ox thatwe had to the field to be ready early Monday morn-ing to begin plowing, and would camp there during. 3& --S -Sr^-_^Going to the Field Sunday Evening the week. I would lead the ox, and one of mybrothers held the plow, and the other brother pullthe weeds from around the corn. We would workthat way during the week, and on Saturdey eveningwe would all go home to our cabin. We made asplendid crop of corn, and the corn and wheat weraised the first year put us in good shape with breada plenty and to spare. The first load of corn webought in 48 we had to haul from near Red the year 1849 there was quite a number of fami-lies in Dallas, and we had twelve or fifteen good Sixty Years in Texas. 33 milk cows, and we proposed to furnish the town inall the butter they wanted; and on the other hand,they, the people of Dallas, or some of them, agreedto take all the good, fresh butter we could bringthem, and pay a fair price for it; and it was agreedthat we three boys should take turn about deliver-ing the butter with the old white horse, the onlyone that we had, and ev
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