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Henry ‘cause I could pick faster than he could. He’d move the ladders for me, you know, from tree to tree, after I got out all the apples at the top. He had his own ladder and was picking, too. They’d call out to him, ‘Don’t look Henry; she’s cleaned your tops.’ Mrs. Sisk laughed as she remembered and clapped her hands together, catching her breath so she could continue her story with the same mile-a-minute energy that she approaches hoeing or canning or dilling or cooking.
“All that time working, I was busy trying to make a home. There was nothing on this place when we came here but for a lilac bush. So after I got through all my work I started setting out flowers.’’ And Mrs. Sisk set out plenty. The steep hills and rock outcroppings around her white frame house are covered with beds of iris and “pinks,” pots of begonias, hen and chickens and impatiens.
“IT WAS HARD after my husband died. Had all the hospital bills to pay off. But I did it, and by myself. And I made all the improve
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