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Updated: May 1, 2025
And after a little Hiram traced the line of old postholes which had followed a straight line on the west side of the water-hole. In other words, this water-privilege for Dickerson's land was of recent arrangement so recent indeed, that the young farmer believed he could see some fresh-turned earth about the newly-set posts.
These contests had the quality of a wrestling match but the men always won. My own job was to rake and burn the brush which my father mowed with a heavy scythe. Later we dug postholes and built fences but each day was spent on the new land. Around us, on the swells, gray gophers whistled, and the nesting plover quaveringly called.
He found occasional work in the drugstore, and for a time he had a small private school. His surviving pupils speak warmly of his sympathy and kindness. He had little mechanical ability. I recall seeing him try to build a fence one morning. He bravely dug postholes, but they were pretty poor, and the completed fence was not so very straight.
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