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Bob's Chapter

Keeping Fruit in the Backyard

told by Robert Ray Guild

The section lists cherries, peaches, pears, and lots of applesauce. The narrator recalls Dad wrapping pears and apples in newspaper and storing them for several months in bushel baskets in a covered hole in the backyard. The family ate the apples even when they became a little wrinkled.

In the family's own words

Cherries Peaches Pears Lots of Applesauce Dad wrapped pears and apples in newspaper and stored them for several months in bushel baskets in a covered hole in the backyard. Sometimes the apples got a little wrinkled but we ate them anyway.

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