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He had a big barn in back of the hotel and a lot of ground, about two acres, we had horses, chickens, pigeons, rabbits and a team of goats which I used to deliver beer and collect empty bottles, when I was about 17 years old Dad bought a Steamobile, brother Frank and I had many pleasant days with that old machine, it was built in Keene, New Hampshire, they only made about 10 of them, it used kerosene for fuel, it would take 20 to 30 minutes to get up steam, you could travel about 15 miles on a steady run, you could step it up to 40 miles per hr, for a few block and it would run out of steam, washday, which was on Monday weather permitting was a problem, Frank and I had to turn the wash machine we didn’t like the job