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Ronald Paul: What I, what I used to hate, hah!, we’d go out in the afternoons, in the summer time you want to go swimming, and they’d say, “You can go do that after supper, right now you go out and chop down a poplar tree, make sure its clear.” We’d go out there and look for a poplar tree ten/twelve inches and clear about eight feet. We’d chop that down – there were no chainsaws, homemade saws - we’d have to chop it all down, and split it. Split the top and right down the middle, and then we had to hew it out. Get it all hewed out and then put off to one side, eight or nine of them blocks and we’d take them home. Hey my works done! And butter trays, them butter trays, they weren’t worth very much in them days, five dollars is five dollars. Today them same butter trays I’m talking about, you can go out and pay seventy five to eighty dollars for it now.
