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town and I suppose it was as handsome as any house in the town. It had two bathrooms.

Which was a luxury.

It was a luxury, for a house built about 1890, I guess, and we had two horses and a carriage, a buggy. I had a pony when I was very little, which died of pneumonia and which crushed me, because I think this was one of my earliest experiences with illness of any kind. I don't think I could have been more than two-and-a-half or three. The pony was given to me for Christmas by a friend of my father's and was exercised by a young hired man. One day he drove it too fast and the pony got pneumonia and the next thing I knew it was dead, which upset me terribly! I was actually inconsolable about it.

Was it replaced by another?

No, not for a long time. It was a very, very great shock to me.

This reminds me that I have a sister who was born five years later than I was, and I had said to my father and mother before this that I needed a little sister, and shortly thereafter she appeared and not more than a year later. And I said, “Now I will tell you what to name her,” and they were astonished at this amount of determination on my part. They said, “All right, what do you have in mind?” And I said, “Her name should be Alice,”