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My Hobby in Pictures

By Harry Lee

Elnora, Indiana

This picture was taken in about year 1936. I called this the Mule Cart. On the mule is my brother Harold and my oldest sister, Maxine. Standing with the dog is my youngest sister, Anna Ruth, and me in the rear driver's seat. The Mule's name was Fred. He was in his mid 20's and the dog was named Jack. We went lots of miles, and had lots of fun, but my father traded the mule in on some kind of farm machinery, so in top picture I updated the cart to a gas engine power.

With me in the above picture are the neighbor boys. In the front is Norman Rader, he adjusted the governors to make it go different speeds as we traveled, and in the high-up rear is Junior Rader. He guided it with ropes, that can be seen through the front wheel. In the center is me holding a wrench. My part was to hold in on the belt tightener to make it go, and pull back...

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