The people liked to read when they had access to reading material. When I got old enough to teach I put in a library in the three schools I taught. They would have money in the treasury from the sale of box socials or spelling bees. So I would take the money and go to Indiana, and Bert Russell who worked in Hall's Book Store would pick me out a nice variety of books, sixty or seventy dollars' worth, and I would number and list them. Then the children would take home the ones they liked to read and their mothers would not have had the opportunity otherwise. It was one of the most satisfactory parts of my teaching as I look back on it today. Then the Wherry family got the benefit of al those books, and we were quite a reading family. The last winter I spent at South Bend was spent teaching the South Bend school. Near the end of the term we decided to put on a "really big show," drawing from the community as well as the school children. We had two short plays, solos, duets, and even a minstrel show and tap dancing recruited from Idaho. We didn't make much money as the admission was 10 and 20 cents, but had a lot of fun, and it was so well received that we were invited to put the show on in the West Lebanon Hall. I put the board seats around our wagon bed to make a tally-ho to haul as many as possible, and the rest went in buggies. Alvie Hanna drove the four horses hitched to the wagon, and had managed to resurrect an antique tall black silk hat to wear. We practiced a little while to get used to the "acoustics" but soon repaired to the hotel to make merry and then partake of a good dinner - paid for out of the prospective profits. As there were 26 of us at the dinner, it pretty well depleted the treasury.