Pat ran over a pig and almost ran away with Susan

One time Mom and Dad were gone and Pat was babysitting. They had to do the chores, and one was to take the little tractor out and feed the pigs. Pat was 12 or 13 or so. When he was out in the field, he accidentally backed over a pig and killed it. He came back to the house, and we were standing by the big garage door talking about how he was going to be in BIG trouble. So he decided he would run away. He started out wanting Margy to go with him, and she was NOT going, so he tried to convince one of the rest of us to go. No one would go with him, and the way Susan could was if he carried her. He ran all the way to the railroad bridge, which was in the center of the section. By the time Mom and Dad got home, he was back home. And he never got in trouble, because it was his own 4-H pig he had killed.



Pat also always carried Susan down with him whenever he had to go to the fruit room in the basement.