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A: He mrked in them. Yes, he mrked in them.
Q: mat did he do
A: I don't know, he never did say. I don't bow ht kind of wrk,
whehr he wrked down below or dmt, kt he wrked around the opal mines
and he hew about them. He talked about one once in awhile. But he used
to go with his dad quite a few t h s to these rich people that had msions
and everything. His dad was a coacham for than, drive them around, you
how. I heard my dad say a lot of tks , he mld take him along because
he'd shine shoes for him and everything else. He said they even had wine
cellars and his dad mld always go down and get wine. So he sent him a
lot of times, said a lot of times he tasted that wine. (laughs) He said
satirnes he tasted too nuch of that wine. (laughter) He ms just a
kid. But he told E about that, he used to go with his dad. Then he
used to go with his dad, he said, to go hunting wild boars . That was the
goal wer there, wild boars. If you didn't get up a tree and if you
didn't get up a good tree the old boar wld chew that tree dotm. (laughs)
Q: Yes. I've heard they're danger-.
A: Yes. But he said he used to go and then they'd turn the dogs loose.
He used to tell me about that, not too mh. But I guess that ms something.
mting wild boars.
Q: ' Yes. Wnat else do you remember about your parents
A: Well, I 've just abaut told you everything about my parents, but my
great-grandpa--see, my rmther came here to her uncle, which was my seat-uncle,
in Wyoming. I s t e l l pu abut that, about Andy J3ugas. He cam
here in the 1880's and then he cane to Wydng, I guess, that's all I
r d r . He cam ri&t to Wyoming. I don't know who tm there that he
knew, anpy, he as self-educated. He didn't go to any school, unless
it w correspondence school or samething like that. He ms in the h e
of Representatives in the state of Wyoming. I don't how &ether he was
a senator or not, but his picture's up there with that little old round
black hat they had. I ' 11 never forget it, because I saw his picture up
there, yau haw, one of those old timzrs. I guess he didn't get married
until he was about 36 and his wife ms only about 16. He raised eight
kids, I think, six boys and tm girls, and every one of thaa they all had
a college education. Every one of them.
Q: Yes.
A: I didn't finish telling you about all of our kids, Of course, the
oldest girl, she's not finished her degree. She's going to college now.
She' s going to finish and get her degree. But my wife, I mid her
right out of high school, d then after the kids grew up, she started
taking classes and she graduated fran Millikin. Of course, she took
correspondence frm all over, and she just got her college degree about
24 years ago, sanething like that. After the kids grew up, she started
going to school. She wntd to be a teacher, and she did.
Q: I see. That's your wife.