These stories are founded on memories of my childhood on the farm. They
first took definite form in response to the requests of my own little
boys: "Tell me about when you were little, Mama." Some of them were
demanded over and over again; but it remained for Bobby, the youngest,
to insist that they be "put into a book."
Many a time, after listening to one of them, he would say: "I wish you
would write your stories, Mama, so that other children could hear
them."