they got to go for more.

One summer they had a singing school that the children and their mothers could attend. Leslie Raymond said that the teacher said he could stay home, as he could not carry a tune.

The men would pitch silver dollars or horse shoes when they were unable to work in the fields.

By Mrs. John Van Ounsen

THE GOOD OLD DAYS AT RED HILL
A lot of students went to the Red Hill School, and there was a shed near the school in which to keep the horses. Everyone rode horses to school except the Sarchet kids, and they had to walk!

Edith Sarchet Cruce recalls that Louise Gilliam May was her first grade teacher. "One thing I liked about the country school was that after

you finished your work, you could learn from the other classes," she said. Bessie Peck was her second grade teacher. Faun Welker later taught the primary grades. "She read to us for a certain time every day and I loved that," Edith also recalls. "She selected really good books."
In the fall at recess the kids played marbles; in winter, it was jacks and other indoor games; in the spring, they played softball, volleyball and hookey.

One April Fool's Day, the Red Hill School students decided to play hookey. Everyone got on horses, many riding double, and rode over to the Vigo School and disrupted classes for a while. Edith recalls vividly that "everyone got in big trouble when we got home. ." The next April Fool's Day, to keep the kids from playing hookey and getting in trouble, the whole community declared a holiday and went on a picnic to Palo Duro Canyon. "The CCC men were still working in Palo Duro on the roads, picnic areas, etc. We had

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