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He put his arm' around Mrs. Deliah’s shoulders and told her that he gave her all of the

credit for saving Tribble’s life. We were all exhausted. Tribble was so weak that he couldn’t
sit up in bed. Even after he regained some of his strength, he couldn’t walk for a little while.
Dr. Bishop said, that eating whey would help him regain his strength. We'had to give Tribble
a tablespoonful of whey every few minutes.

While Ma and I were nursing Tribble, Ma decided to go back home for a while; she
hadn’t seen Emerald, Opal, Fay, and Lenvil for six weeks. But to make matters worse, some
of the kids got the measles. Our good neighbor, Mrs. Nettie Pearce, went over every day and
stayed with the kids; Pa went home to be with them every night.

Pa stayed with Tribble so I could drive Ma home. We reached the front of Bethel
Methodist Church on the Gainesville Road; I wasn’t going very fast. Both Ma and I must
have dozed off when all of a sudden I looked up and saw a man walking right down the
middle of the right-hand side of the road. Neither of us had seen him until that second. I was

so close to him that I wasn’t able to cut the car either way to avoid hitting him. I pushed the
horn as hard as I could and jammed on the brakes. It scared him, and he just leaped to the
shoulder of the road.

Once I got control of the car, stilLscared to death, I looked over at the man and
recognized him. His last name was Haines, and he was deaf and dumb. I' was so close to him
when I blew the horn that he felt the vibration of the sound-^and that’s why his instinct was
to jump off the road. I’m sure I would have run over him if he hadn’t jumped.

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The three Young brothers who owned Young’s Hardware were Joe Young, Fred
Young, and Talmage (“Tai”) Young. Eric work for the Young brothers from 1927 to 1937.
The Youngs didn’t live up to their promises. They led Eric to believe they would take him in

as a partner or sell him an interest in the store. But Eric didn’t get the promise of a partner­
ship in writing. The three brothers told him that they were all getting to the age when they
needed someone to carry on the store for them. None of the brothers had any children or

young relatives.
Eric was practically carrying on the business for them after a couple of years. Mr. Joe
was so old he never even went to the store anymore, then he died. Mr. Fred was the presi­

dent and a stockholder for the First National1'Bank and was seldom at the store. In the ten
years Eric worked for them, they had never given him one day of vacation except for our
honeymoon; they never gave him one red cent of a raise in salary. Eric was paid the same

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