WATER

WATER was scarce on High Prairie and deep wells were unknown at that time. Our source of water was a shallow well about ten or twelve feet deep, near the house. The sides were great rough boulders. Water would get very low in hot weather. I remember taking a bucket and a tin cup and clambering down the rough stone sides of the well. As the water was too shallow to dip the pail into it, I dipped the small supply of water up with the cup and poured it into the pail. Then someone at the top would hoist the precious burden. When this supply gave out, we carried water from a spring, a distance of about two or three blocks from the house, and in dry weather, we carried all the water for washing from the spring. We called it the Big Spring and later, when it had been enlarged and was full of water, both my sister and I were baptized in it.