title: When Chores Were Done: Boyhood Stories
author: Jerry Apps
description: <DIV><div> Jerry Apps is a professor emeritus of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. </div></DIV>
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  CHAPTER I. 
  fji!!��I5H HERE were three of them­
  Jerry, Jimmy, and 
  Kathleen. 
  Jerry's name was Gerald, and 
  not Jeremiah, 
  whaten:r 
  you 
  may think; and Jimmy's name 
  was James; and Kathleen was 
  never called by her name at all, but Cathy, 
  or Catty, or Puss Cat whtn her brothers were · 
  pleased with her, and Scratch Cat when they 
  were not pleased. 
  And they were at school 
  in a little town in the West of England ; the 
  boys at one school, of courst, and the girls 
  at another, 
  )>t;causc the sensible 
  habit of 
  having boys and girls in the same school is 
  not yet as common as I hope it will be some 
  day. 
  They used to sec each other on Satur­
  days and Sundays at the house of a kind 
  maidt:n 
  I<Hly ; 
  but 
  it was 
  one 
  of 
  thosu 
  houses where it i� iml'ussil,lc to play. 
  \'ou 
  know the kind of house, Jon't you ? 
  There 
  is a sort of a sonH.·thing al,out
  · 
  that kind of 
  house that makes you harJh· ahh: t:\o:n to 
  talk to each otl1cr �\·hell you
  · 
  an: Iooft alone; 
  anJ 