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stant companion. I built him a harness which he did not
enjoy. We also had a horse named "Spider" which I
mounted by grabbing her mane and throwing a leg
over her back. We never had a saddle but rode bareback
extensively around the unfenced countryside. Spider was
Lois on "Spider", 1927
also used to pull a wagon and plow. I would occasionally
harness Spider and use the wagon, and even
help with the plowing. We also had a cow called "Daisy"
but the milking was left to others. Both Lois and I
acquired bicycles which we rode to the South Bay
Union School, but more often we walked the mile each
way.
Boy Scouts
When a Boy Scout troop was formed in Palm City
joined and was appointed patrol leader, with my close
friend, Raymond Johnson, as the other patrol leader.
We held meetings in a church in Palm City and went on
hikes around the area -- in addition to the 2 miles to
Palm City from Imperial Beach. A memorable outing
was an overnight camp-out at Scout Headquarters in
Balboa Park, (later to become the zoo's parking lot), in
San Diego. It proved adventurous in that it rained
all night. The newspaper account which reported, "since
the scouts knew how to make drainage ditches around
their tents, neither boy nor bedding became wet", was
far from accurate.
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