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Mosty Family History
FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
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... looking a RR switchyard. I sat in the yard all day watching the trains.
At Hepler Dad bought a team of Percheron horses. One a nice animal but he had to buy the other one - an ugly poor bony old pacing nag.
His rst job with the team was lling up an old cistern with dirt moved with a scraper. About the rst thing to happen the bank caved in and the good horse fell in & broke it’s neck. The old pacing nag came in handy later.
Lee & I were in the cellar one time eating raw Irish potatoes. I got a spud that had been poisoned ...
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... with “Rough on Rats” poison. I had the rst t. Lee told what happened. Dad rushed out and hitched the old nag to a two wheeled cart. The nag was supposed to make a mile in 2 minutes & I am sure she did on the trip to Hepler. The druggist took me in the back room & gave me a swallow of medicine & it bounced back with everything in me & then another dose & if I had had socks on they would have come up that time. Anyway I am still here.
We moved to a farm near Hepler right on the MK&T Railroad tracks. Many hours I watched the trains go by & also could see them ...