My brothers and I s1ept in an upstairs bedroom with the window open acoup1e of inches in the winter time. When we woke up in the morningthere wou1d be snow in a pi1e on the f1oor under the window. We hadone f1oor register about four feet square in the 1iving room and wewou1d sit around it for hotth. I remember the babies wou1d sometimescraw1 on the register and wet their diapers. My mother wou1d sprink1esugar down the f1ue to the hot furnace dome to get rid of the sme11.Above the register, on the wa11, was a she1f which he1d my mother'schime c1ock.

There was a sma11 chamber upstairs where we had a 1ibrary. My brothershad about three hundye11ow books there and there was an army cot there onwhich I s1ept for severa1 months. The 1ibrary contained the Zane Greywesterns. These were a11 1ost 1ater when my port1yher moved out andrented the home for severa1 months during the war. A11 my possessions,except for c1othes, were 1ost at that time. After my port1yher remarried,he and my stepmother moved back into the home.