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frolicking, and lots of jokes, and some of them. pretty rough jokes, perhaps. T~%the.t he seid got me to thinking, and I have never been careless minded at a wedding since that day. Brother McDowell preached at Clarke‘s Chapel, about five miles south of Franklin, North Qa‘lina, on the road leading from Englend to Georgia; that road ran right through the Van Hook place.“

	Again Laney interrupted her husband. “My mother said. they even had infare dinners the next day after the wedding. The infare dinners were just for the families or the bride and groom, and the bride h8d a special dress for that occasion that she called her infare dress. The friends of both parties were there at the big feast on the wedding day, but not at the infare dinner.“

	“And. there was no such a thing as child marriages heard of in tho$e days,“ ~Tohnwasspeaking again. “At least none of tile brides were under 15 or 16 years old. Now you can read about child brides not more than 10 years old, ‘most ever‘ time you pick up a paper.

	“I don‘t remember much about what I played until I got to be about 10 ~rears old. I‘was a terrible littlefellow to imitat e things . Old man Tortmiy Angel built mills ‚ and I built mys elf a little toy mill down on the branch that led to Sugar Fork River. There was plenty of nice soapstone there that was so soft you could cut it with a pocket knife and could dress it off with a plane for a nice smooth finish. I shaped two pieces of soapstone to look like round millstones and set me up a little miii that worked just fine.