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     and carried out to the road for the pick- 
     
     up truck by three o’clock each afternoon. 
     
     Many times our hands experienced the 
     
     sting of a bee as we disturbed it among 
     
     the blossoms. 
     
    

    
     Fall seemed to arrive earlier then than 
     
     it does now. Perhaps that was because 
     
     school resumed in the country the middle 
     
     of August. People today still claim that 
     
     summer is gone once Old Home Week is 
     
     over. The recompense for the early start 
     
     of classes was the two weeks’ closure for 
     
     potato-picking in mid - October. It was a 
     
     wonderful fall vacation since very few 
     
     students actually worked at the potato 
     
     harvesting. It was the adults who did the 
     
     picking. 
     
    

    
     Each fall, in the late forties, the 
     
     Farrells and the Murphys loaded into 
     
     Uncle Willie’s car for the annual trip to