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Our family had a
lot of fun; too much sometimes to Mamma’s embarrassment. Restaurants were
fun. We boys and Pa would get going on some thing and get each other
laughing and as things got funnier, they got louder. Mama would finally have
to threaten all of us. It never did much good. Anything was fair game.
Occasionally, we would have to suddenly get serious and cease the laughing,
as Tom would get to laughing so hard he’d choke. Once, he threw up, but like
a good cowboy used his boot instead of the floor!
Tom’s gloves become ‘monkey feet.”
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Tom’s the Jewish one on the left. |
John that it would be funny to enter us in a wild cow race. And Tom came up with a plan to win. Pa watched from the stands laughing loudly to see his three sons were as crazy as he was. And WE WON $23 each! It was the hardest $23 we had ever earned.
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Then Tom rode her crow hopping across the finish line! And the crowd went wild. Especially Pa. And Mother was glad that her foolish sons were all still alive and in one piece. |
Tom became a
professional welder, diesel mechanic and unknown to the rest of us got his
license to drive semi trucks! All of it would eventually land him the dream
job of all true cowboys.
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