That Missouri home had been but a stopping place, a step in the westward journey and even then, Father and Mother were thinking and talking about Oregon. Mother was from Kentucky and Father was from Virginia. I was the youngest of seven. I remember many things about the home there, I remember seeing the heat shimmering over the ripening corn field Mother told me, when I asked, that it was "OLD LAWRENCE". I had been warned to keep in out of the sun for "OLD LAWRENCE" was out there. When I first saw the shimmer over the corn field that lay between our house and Malotte's, I thought that perhaps it had something to do with Becky, the girl that brother Adam talked so much about. Adam said that she was mighty brilliant. I was curious about what it meant and Mother told me that brilliant things were things that sparkle, so I used to look across the corn field, and I was quite satisfied that Becky Malotte had something to do with the shimmer that I saw above it. I was Quite disturbed about it when I found that it was "OLD LAWRENCE" for I was afraid of him. Walt Davies