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MY 1921 JOHN DEEREBy Zane L. RenderBossier City, Louisiana 71111 My dad started me out in the field driving our model "T" pickup to the house while he drove tractor and machinery home after finishing a field. I was so small I had to stand on the floorboards to see ahead. He would release the emergency lever and put it part-way down and I would push in the low pedal. This way I would never get out of a fast walk. Of course, the tractor moved even slower. I would hold down on low pedal until my leg would get tired and slip off. This, of course, would kill the engine. So when my father would catch up he would patiently restart me home again and he would return to the tractor. I probably killed the pickup at least 8 or 10 times in the couple of miles before we would get home. Incidentally, this happened around Tangier, Oklahoma in northwest Oklahoma where I grew up. Finally, I graduated... 796 of 7538 characters shown.
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