26. Do you remember when you first saw bed springs instead of bed ropes?

I slept in a gunny bunk. My missus had a rope bed and she covered the

ropes with a cow hide. We made hay and corn shuck mattresses for her.

We'd cut the hay and shucks up fine and stuff the ticks with them. The

cow hides were placed on top of the mattresses to protect them.

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