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TOLD by the PIONEERS - Washington Secretary of State

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Told<br />

<strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pioneers<br />

HARRIET HADLEY<br />

Yakima County<br />

I haye to laugh when I think <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old log school house. There was<br />

no stove, just a box filled with dirt, and inside <strong>of</strong> this my fa<strong>the</strong>r made<br />

<strong>the</strong> fire place. The flue was <strong>of</strong> mud and sticks, and it didn't smoke,<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

At recess we dug up wild sunflowers to get <strong>the</strong> gum from <strong>the</strong> roots.<br />

One day a half-breed girl was late. The teacher was severe and tried<br />

to make her give a reason. All she would say was "hill-gum."<br />

MAUD WARD DICKEY<br />

King County<br />

'When my fa<strong>the</strong>r was teaching on <strong>the</strong> Indian reservation, he and<br />

mo<strong>the</strong>r used to talk Chinook to each o<strong>the</strong>r so that we children would<br />

not know what <strong>the</strong>y were saying. So we learned to talk it, too. Then<br />

<strong>the</strong>y talked Indian and we learned that. Then <strong>the</strong>y decided to return<br />

to civilization so that we children would talk English.<br />

ANNA (PASLEY) ADAMS<br />

Okanogan County<br />

There was no school in Pateros when I moved <strong>the</strong>re with my two<br />

children. There were four o<strong>the</strong>r children in <strong>the</strong> settlement. A school<br />

was held in our bedroom for <strong>the</strong> six <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

CARRIE MEARS<br />

Stevens County •<br />

On arriving at <strong>the</strong> landing, fa<strong>the</strong>r met a Hudson's Bay Company<br />

employee and inquired about work. .He was looking for inside employment<br />

and asked what chance <strong>the</strong>re was for getting some bookkeeping.<br />

rrhis man asked fa<strong>the</strong>r if he could teach French. Fa<strong>the</strong>r<br />

said he could. He was very well educated in French, in fact he was<br />

never able to speak really good English, although he was a great reader<br />

in both French and English.<br />

He went to <strong>the</strong> Hudson's Bay Company fort and for a year taught<br />

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