MARY ANDERSON - BOYD'S FISHING TRIPS
By Mary Anderson-Boyd
| My Brother Howard C. Anderson and couple of cousins would
always want me to go fishing with them. All they wanted me to go
for was to carry the worms and bait. I was too little to do much
fishing then. They would catch the fish and I had to carry the fish
and the bait back to the house. I finally grew up and they had to
carry their own stuff.
We use to pick a lot of Gooseberries off of the hills, that were North of Grandpa Thomas B. Anderson’s house. We would sell them for 35 cents a gallon. Quite a few neighbors would by gallons and gallons of them because they liked Gooseberry short cake, pie, and jelly. When we got done with the Gooseberry picking we would go over by the bend to pick Huckleberries. That was a hard job, as they were very small and it took a lot to fill a bucket. The ticks were also bad and we had to soak our socks in coal oil to help keep them off. The berries made a lot of good pies and cobblers. |
© Mary Anderson-Boyd 2003