The father makes the children's toys.
When I was young I found some discarded gears and played with them, imitating a wagon or traction engine [a steam engine] like they used on the farm.
When I was living with my grandparents I didn't have anyone to play with. Two of my uncles, Levi and Sam, had boys my age.
My cousin Elmer had a sharp pocket knife. We'd cut sticks into horses. Once we were playing and I felt my horse wasn't as good as his. He did good work with wood. When he got a little older he made his own play wagon. Later on he became a carpenter.
Girls help with the housework, boys with farm work. I remember working in the field when I was too small to ride behind the harrow. They'd put a box on the harrow so I could drive the team of horses. I was probably eight or nine years old. I was too young to plow.
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