As one season followed another, the carefree days of fun and adventure were interwoven among the hectic days of seedtime and harvest. This heart-warming collection of time-honored memories will bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart.

Real-life stories will take you back to the time when families stood shoulder to shoulder, working against Depression, dearth and drought to build a better life together.

In discussing the good old days, I have attempted to describe in some detail nearly every aspect as to how things were as I was growing up during those days in a close-knit farming community. Some readers, however, may be more interested in my personal experiences of that time, the more humorous of which having been included. Growing up first without electricity and then without a father inspired my overactive imagination to go wild in creating a wide variety of ways to entertain myself, many of which were unwise and would never have been tolerated had my father lived.

"By request of my nephew, Rodney C. Hardy, for a story of life on the farm of by-gone days, I have endavored to give as accurate an account as memory and awakening of the subconscious mind could reveal. Every incident recorded in the pages of this booklet are true, and I am happy to have had the privilege of leaving to my friends and family relatives, as well as to coming generations, what life on a farm was klike in the Good Old Days. Ella Lilly Horak" -- T.P. verso.

Nothing in the American scene has changed so much in the last half-century as country life. The old-time farm as most of us knew it is fast becoming a matter of the past. This book is a portrait of those times, of that vanishing way of life.