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Subject: [MaineRoots] &quot;Recollections&quot; by Henry E. Whitney Sr.

From: Roy &amp; Michele Painter &lt;{{emailaddress|strato.net|rmp6797}}&gt;

PART II

Two things happened while I was quite small.  Norman (brother - Norman
Earl Whitney mayor of Bangor 1931) was ten years older than I and he
hated to take care of me.  One day I was ina carriage at the top of the
stairs that came down from the back bedroom to the washroom shed.  There
was a wall about 3 foot from the foot of the stairs.  He started my
carriage down the stairs and let it go.  I was too young to know about
it but I guess it didn't hurt me.
Another thing, the big dog that led the hobo to the street was getting
old and crabby.  He was asleep on the couch and I was rolling the metal
off the hub of a wheel around the fllor when he woke up and jumped and
grabbed me by the cheek.  I had to have nine stitches taken.  I can't
remeber it but I dimly remember father taking care of my face after the
stitches were taken out.
I can remember many things about my childhood.  Mostly I worked helping
pull weeds in the garden, driving hay rakes, leading out the horse for
the hay fork, unloading hay, etc.  Mother used to give me 50 cents for
July 4th and I bought some night pieces to take over to Runnels.  Their
boy Kent was about 2 or 3 years older than I and his uncle, Mr. Handy,
from Boston, always sent him $5 and another uncle in Bangor was in real
estate business and usually gave him $5 so he usually had $12 or $13 to
spend, so usually a couple of other boys in the neighborhood went to his
house with their fireworks so we had quite a show.  We were always up by
daylight to start firing firecrackers.
When I was real small my Aunt Nell (Nellie Whitney born 1869) and Uncle
Henry (Roberts) from Boston visited us and asked me if I would like a
puppy.  Of course I would so they sent me a fox terrier who I named
Piggie. I had him for quite a long time but I really don't know how or
when he died.
Norman caught a small chipmunk that he kept in a cage and Sundays we
would close all the kitchen doors and let it run for a while.  He also
caught a baby woodchuck and I had it quite tame so you could pick it
up.  One year father had a little pig that got one leg broken so he gave
it to me.  He would follow me everywhere just like a dog.  I called him
Limpy.  There was also a bird that came back several summers and mother
and Norman would set out food fot it.  I really can't remember what it
was but it was quite a large bird.
A short distance back of our farm was the railroad and as the trains
went several times a day each way another form of entertainment for a
farm kid was to go down and watch them go by.  Sometimes I would go
alone but often with Dustin Syde who lived about a 1/2 mile from me and
was my closest playmate.
When father bought the farm there were two old barns on it and a long
shed connected to the house.  On one side of the shed there was a piece
built on, just to pile up firewood on it.  At the end of this arm was
the outhouse, a two-holer.  In the winter of 1910 father tore down most
of the old barns and in the summer of 1911 a large new barn was built
with a shed connecting with the house with a 3-holer toilet on one
side.  All winter we had to walk out to the old toilet after the shed
was torn down do it was windy and cold.  We thought we had it made when
we had the new one that was fixed up much nicer and was  larger and a
lot warmer.

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