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died by the whole sale. Nearly all the hogs died from cholera. The dogs ate the hogs and the dogs died from sore throat.
One of our neighbors had a hog that kept getting in my Father’s cornfield and we could not keep it out. One day Father told me to take the gun and kill the hog, which I did. The hog belonged to the wife of a soldier and when he came back from the war he was told that I killed his hog. The soldier was furious after hearing what happened to his hog. He got his rifle and came near my house and sat on a rock waiting to get a shot at me.
Narrow Escape
Mother found it out first and took me and locked me in a room. He continued to sit there on the rock waiting for me. I got tired of being locked up. I got out of the window on the porch roof and swung down on the ground and then into the house and got my rifle, went out in the yard and took a crack at him. I didn’t hit him but he immediately got up and left. He told someone later that the bullet passed close to his head.
After the war “Barlow”,
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