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Vailly when three cars went
straight on through the town,
and so came up behind me
when they got the road straight.
So I was in the last three
to be unloaded. Unloaded
three at a time. Perry Patton
got in the ditch and they tried
to toe [tow] him out, but couldn't
do it. He finally backed out
himself. Penland after being
unloaded got across a narrow
gage [gauge] railroad track and went
in up to the axel [axle] in soft dirt,
and had to be towed out. Ben
and Bert smashed their gate
trying to pull Pery [Perry] out. I
was ready to leave for home
at 9:30. Went through the
villege [village] to turn around. A
miserable place to turn. An