7 7 ranch. in the spring, they hired me to work for them. they had children around my age. i made about $75 or $80 in two or three months. i decided to go back to oklahoma to help mama. i bought a motor- cycle to go back, but aunt virgie said ‘no’ . i kept it anyway and rode it a day or two without oil in the gas and it burned up. i returned it to my cousin who was the pre- vious owner. i took the train. back in oklahoma, i worked on a farm dur- ing the spring and summer in chickasha. dad and mama were separated again. mama suggested i go up to friends of hers who ran a dairy in a nearby town and live with them and go to school. i went there but did not stay long. my mother’s cousin, fannie holcomb, lived around there, so i moved in with them and started back to school, but quit soon after. i would have had to go five miles back and forth. i stayed there until the next spring. it seemed that every spring i got the urge to move on. i rode it a day or two without oil in the gas and it burned up.