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hadn't noticed it but soon found he was so hoarse he couldn't talk. So I went to Aunt Scharlotte who was always our help. She told me what to give him & he was soon better. As soon as any of them began to improve Hugh cleaned a chicken, his very first & did a good job of
it. so they could have some soup. Our neighbor Sister Kemp sent over what the Danish called sweet soup. It was rice, raisens & dried apples cooked together. It needed no sugar & digested & helped give them strength. I have always had good neighbors, kind & helpful. Their memory is very dear to me & that of all my dear husband's people. After the measles they all seemed to get strong but Hugh, he hadn't had a hearty appetite like the others. One time that spring after we moved back to the farm he & Moroni were bringing a mare & young colt out of the field to the Stable. The colt got into the River. Hugh got in & helped it out he was sick after it & had a bad cough for so long, we were very worried about him for he never seemed strong like Forest. He couldnt eat. We finally got some fruit that helped. I think it was the next year that there wasn't water to farm & Maud Barrett a cousin & her husband asked Moroni to farm at the place called The Green Spot. There was water there to farm on shares so we moved our cows & lived in a large Adobe room with a small tent for a kitchen & a large one for beds. The children & I carried big flat rocks & put between the beds in the dent
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Bird Barret & Maude bought a binder for cutting the grain. Forest was at Barret's working so Hugh helped his father put the binder together. Hugh was eleven years old, tall & slim but not strong. Forest was healthy & strong. They loved & appreciated each other.
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on the floor to walk on, it was cleaner. We had to get our water from a
deep wash close by for house use. There was a little stream of good water, we had a garden & small grain, corn & potatoes. There was a box canyon south of us that the water came from, with big hills west & pasture for cows during the rainy season. Big floods came down the canyon, one came after dark. We all slept in the house, the water came on up to the foundation, then it went down before it got to come in around the door, so we slept in Peace. One evening in late afternoon we knew it rained & water would come down the wash, so Hugh started early for the cows as they had to cross the deep wash. But the cows were scattered & by the time he got to it with the cows it was too high to cross. It soon got dark & coyotes began to howl. Moroni tied dry wood together with matches & found a narrow place to throw them over to Hugh. He wasn't quite so lonely with a fire & us on the other side of the wash with our fire waiting for the flood to go down. Moroni found a wide shallow place by eleven pm, he waded across & got Hugh home. That summer after the crop was planted our employer got Forest to work for him. The Green Spot was several miles from the Barrett home ranch, Lou often worked for
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