One time my mother went to Ludlow from Ninevah with a large wagon in order to bring home my cousins for a visit with the Townsend children and many needed supplies for home consumption and especially to purchase a big supply of glass window panes, so as to replace all the broken or cracked window lights, in the house, to insure better insulation before winter came. We children were delighted to have several cousins visit us, and we were having fun jumping from the hay-mow, down on to a big load of hay on the barn floor. I thought we could get many more jumps in if we did not have to climb the ladder back onto the hay-mow, so I rushed up to my play house to get a wooden box that would save us from climbing the ladder. In my haste I got the big box but while jumping over the stone wall with it, I caught my knee on a barb wire, which was on top of the stone wall, and tore the flesh off the top of my knee cap. When I returned to the house they were all going in to supper so I started to join them, but my knee hurt so badly that I fainted away and my dear cousin Josephine Leonard was so frightened that she sat down with a bang, on the package of window glass that my mother had so carefully brought from Ludlow and BROKE EVERY SINGLE ONE.
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