well that it sounded as if it were talking. When she was a little girl, he would put her up on a table, hold her hand, and tell her to watch how he danced and to dance as he was doing; that was how she learned to dance. She states that her grandmother was a large woman, bigger than her grandfather. But her grandfather, even though he was small, he was mighty and had a quick temper; her grandmother never let him get out of hand with his temper.
Bill's grandfather lived in Roane County. He had several farms and a little grocery store. When people would fall on hard times, and Bill's grandfather had the money, he would buy their farm from them, then, he would rent it out to someone, furnishing horses and seed to farm it in shares. Bill worked with his grandfather every summer; planting corn, cutting brush, clearing land, raising cattle, building fences, cutting, putting up and hauling hay, things like that. Some of the people that the farms were rented to didn't want to farm them; they just wanted to live there; so, in the summer, Bill
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