I can remember on the weekends, there weren’t that many people back there where we lived. Ramseys, we were always good buddies. On the weekends we liked to take a walk, and they had those little bank mules. They weren’t very big and that was what they hauled the coal out of the mines with. But those little mules back then, they would let them loose on the weekend and let them run. And we were scared to death of them. I was afraid of them, so lots of times we would like to go for a walk and sometimes we wouldn’t. But they had no law back then about cattle or anything. Because I could remember we used to take our dog and his name was Old Taylor and go up on the mountain and get our own cows. We had cows. We always had two and finally Grat trained Old Taylor which was our cows. And he would go over the field and the Harveys…up that mountain. You would turn them up Sangamore, and then they go out, and then they would have to go get them. But some way, Grat trained Old Taylor to go get those cows. He would go get them…but he would bring all the neighbor’s cows off the mountain, get them down to the bottom. But he would only bring his two home. He was a smart dog…that was pretty cute.

Aunt Vergie Taylor gave him to us. That is why we called him Taylor because of her name. But he was smart, but he would nip those cows in the heels until he got them home. And then someone would let them in the barnyard. You see there were not any houses, only our house set there. All the land belonged to where we lived. We had a big barn and it was a big barnyard all fenced in. I supposed as Grandpa got older he sold it off. But he owned about every bit of that up there when I was a kid growing up, Kate. He also owned down there at Dixie across from the lumberyard. On the opposite side of the hill there was a house in there, and there was a big orchard. We would go down there in the fall and gather our apples and things. But that belonged to Grandpa, too. He owned all that through there. He was kinda well-to-do at one time. Bless his heart. For back then, people did not have much, Michael.