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Mother needed to purchase j>oo(ls to make the children's clothes. For this they gathered walnuts and cracked them for 25 cents a pound. They could also peel chestnut bark and take it to the tannery in Sperryville by horse and wagon. _
In winter also came sickness. Sarsaparilla tea helped to thin the blood and hoarhound tea was the remedy for colds. If these remedies failed. Dr. Smith would come to the house, making the long climb on horseback.
Christmas broke up the long winter, although there were no toys - just “some little something." But the family celebrated. Daddy would shoot off his gain and the whole family took the day off to visit. Children each got a piece of stick candy with rings on it.
Mountain families dreaded the cold weather. "When it snowed the wind blew the snow in the cracks. The snow would blow in our faces. "
In the morning, before the fires were started, the beds were swept off so that the snow wouldn’t melt and soak the bedding.
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