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there was enough change left, I could buy a soda pop for a nickel at her store, but Aunt

Sarah would give me a soda pop even if I didn’t have any money left. She also sold bolts of
material, sewing thread, and needles. Aunt Sarah would drive to Lake City in her wagon to
buy her stock for the store.

Aunt Sarah always gave me candy, drinks, chewing gum, and popcorn. She would
shake the popcorn boxes to see which box had a string of beads, and that was the box that
she’d give to me. At that time I was the only grandchild on the Dicks’s side of the family.
Soon Aunt Sarah started her family and had1 four girls: Keron, Irene, Sybil, and Jessie Mae.

Keron has now passed away.
When I went to Aunt Sarah’s store, I had to pass right by Grandma Dicks’s house. I’d
always stop for a little loving from Grandma.

When I was about 8,1 was on my way to visit Grandma Dicks and to play with Roy.
Their home was about three-fourths of a mile from our house. When most of Grandpa and
Grandma’s sons got married, they and their new wives lived in the little sharecropper house

until they could do better. At this particular time, Uncle Walter and his new wife, Clara
Markham Dicks, lived in the cropper house.
After crossing the branch that morning, I saw some of Grandpa’s cows grazing on the

grass. I 'had . seen the cows many times before, and I was never afraid of them. It was a
couple of hundred yards up to the cropper house. A big area around the house was fenced in.
I noticed one old long-homed cow had stopped grazing on the grass and was staring at me. I
slowly walked on, but I kept my eye on her. The cow bobbed her head up and down and

continued to watch me. I slowly moved on.
Suddenly she charged at me! I screamed and started running as fast as I could. I was a

pretty fast runner, but that cow was gaining on me all of the time. If there was one thing that
I was good at, it was screaming. Just as I thought that cow was'going to gore me to death, I
saw a figure sailing over the fence near the road.
Someone grabbed me and threw me over the fence, and I heard a voice say, “Run for

the house!”
I shot a quick look at the figure of my guardian angel jumping the fence as he turned

the comer. The cow was right behind him. Because the cow was so big, it wasn’t able to cut
the comer very fast, and my guardian angel was safe.

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