6 6 mr. stowe had a daughter who lived in mansfield, tex. who had many children. a couple of them were near my age. anyway, i went to her place to pick cotton and decided to stay on for a while. after about six or eight months, in the fall i went back to oklahoma. hitchhiked all the way. mama and daddy were split up at the time. fooled around there, close to home, and mama suggested i go to califor- nia to live with aunt virgie and uncle garl and go to school out there. a friend and i went to california on the train. aunt virgie and them lived in san fernan- do, about 30 miles from los angeles. uncle garl worked for a company building a tuberculosis sanitarium. after that was finished, the owner of a horse ranch in placerita canyon hired uncle garl to work for him at the ranch. i attend- ed school in san fernando until they moved and then it was too difficult to attend. i had to cross a mountain to go to school. uncle garl had kin who worked on a hay it was too difficult to attend. i had to cross a mountain to go to school.