If LaVerna was particularly bossy with me, I could always get her upset if I rolled my eyes up so all she could see was the whites. It always pleased me to freak her out this way. She was born clever though. all of her tattling could not make me stop this perverse pleasure. One time after a particularly great white eyeball roll that was sure to bring the look of horror on her face, she said, "You know, Cleo, some day you will do that and your eyes will stick. You will look like that for ever." I was cured instantly.
When we first moved to our home in St. George, electricity was not to had out that far from town. We used kerosene oil lamps for light at night.
When electric poles were finally being placed out our way, big holes were dug along the roads waiting until the poles could be placed into them.
Mom was walking home from town when the twins were about 5 and found one of them in the bottom of a hole about 2 blocks from in front of Elfreida Jones house. Willard was in the bottom crying and Wayne was trying to figure how to get him out.
The twins, playing on their way ad happened upon the hole with a tiny mouse in the bottom. Willard jumped in to get the mouse and it had run up his leg under his pant leg. He was screaming and Mom couldn't decide who was teh more frightened, Willard or the mouse.
The twins had the most distinctive laughs. They would burst forth with a loud motor starting sound. If I was at local theater watching a movie I could always tell when the twins were in darkened house. Their laugh was so odd the audience would laugh for the funny parts of the movie then again because of the Twins' laugh.
In one of Mom's letters to Dad after the twins were born she told him she had had a terrible day. All of the kids were crying except for LaVerna. Mom said she gave LaVerna a smack so she would cry too. Then Mom sat down and cried with all 5 of us.
With 5 children coming to Mom so quickly and not enough money to feed herself properly. Mom's health suffered. Her teeth lost their calcium to the babies she bore. She had to have them pulled and wore false teeth by the time she was in her early thirties.
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