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this to Father. Sometime later Vera was quite surprised to see that he had bought the suit for her. The price was fifty dollars, although that seems extremely high. She had her wish, and told me how generous her father was "because he probably sold a cow to get it for me."¹¹

"Mother had been reared on a clock-like schedule in the Dunn household. When she reared the Clark family, with their disregard of being on time, she frequently became exasperated. For example, she tried to have Family Night on Wednesday nights, but it didn't get very far."¹⁴

"Mother was worried about driving in an auto, but felt at home in a team-pulled buggy which she expertly drove. She became frustrated, as did her team, when an automobile approached them. She would pull over by the side of the road and wait until the auto went out of sight."¹⁰

"She picked more berries in the fall than any machine could pick. She made jelly and preserves of hawthorn berries ("haws"), chokecherries, serviceberries, and huckleberries."¹⁴

"Mother had an old Singer sewing machine which Father thought was too old. He traded it in on a new White sewing machine, but Mother missed the old one too much, and she went back and got another Singer like her old machine."¹⁴

"She often referred to Doctor Pointer as she ushered babies into the world while waiting for him to emerge from the snow drifts between Montpelier and Georgetown. Mother always had a basin of hot water ready for him."¹³