We walked to school through the pasture - over the hill northeast of the house. The cow paths were knee deep or more to us, but that path was closer than taking the road around the hill to the northeast gate or the west gate. We had to crawl through the fence to get onto the road. Ethel started school two years after I did.At the end of the schoolday, Ethel and I would race to get our coats on first. May and LethaBelle were 8th graders and they would take turns helping us. It was a competition for them, too, to get 'their' tot ready first. I remember that I was VERY competitive. The World Series had nothing on me!! and Ethel was too.
There was one day that, for some reason, (probably I was brattier than usual) - both May and LethaBelle helped Ethel -- Not ME.
Sylvia, Mildred and Marjorie, the younger girls, helped me - and I WON!!! I was gloating so hard that I forgot all about being discarded by the 8th graders. What a BRAT!!
My Mamma told me later that I felt jealous of Ethel when she started to school. I guess that may have been so, but I don't remember that it was jealousy. I just remember being bratty, selfish and bossy.
One morning as we were walking up our first hill towards school -- not far from home, Ethel was not wanting to go and said she didn't get to see Mamma long enough. So I told her that she could go back to the house. She did and I went on without her.
Our Mamma said that we played together perfectly until we went to school.
-- A story told by Alice Gregory that happened about 1922. The school they attended was the Prairie Rose School in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
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