Our family needed me then.

If they never had known it before, they found out there was none too many of us.

Every day I had to watch the blue goose, and bring in her egg before it was chilled, carrying it carefully so it would not be jarred.

I had to hunt the turkey nests and gather their eggs so they would be right for setting.

There had to be straw carried from the stack for new nests, eggs marked, and hens set by the dozen.