The parents objected to their children having an education. So for the first week there were no pupils. I called the county superintendent and said I would just keep going every day. I notified the parents to send their children to school or they would be arrested, so the children started to come to school.
At this school there was a creek and a spring so we had water for the school and the horse. There was also a big prairie dog town and you could hear them barking during school hours. The woodpeckers had made a hole in the wall and a swarm of bees had taken over and you could hear them buzzing all day long. No doubt the walls were full of honey. On the way to school there was a tall dead tree and an eagle had a nest in it. One day I was riding home when my horse jumped and took off running. When I got home I told Jack Brew about it. That day I had ridden Margie, a horse originally from the Bad Lands. Jack said that no doubt the horse had heard a rattle snake. As a rule there weren�t any rattle snakes around as there were a lot of bull snakes, which rattlers don�t like.