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from the point of the head to the tail, around the stomach near the front feet and also near the rear feet, he went to many of these hog guesses and did very well with the betting. About 1909 I started to tend bar, would open six-thirty in the morning, it was a tough job in the winter, the bar room stove was banked at night so the fire was low when I got up. I would open the draft on the stove, put three chairs around the stove, sit on one and my feet on the other two, it would take some time for the stove to get hot, I would go to sleep and as the heat would wake me up I would move the chairs, there was little business in the morning, if someone came in for a drink, they would wake me. I would work to about one P.M. Dad would take over to six P.M. I would go back six to eight and

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