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  Thinking back to the days when it was still leagle to play Dodge Ball in scholl,and you could take aim at the biggest "Okie" in the circle, I was reminded of the other great games we could play.  Cowboys and Indians. 

  First a little lay out of the playing field... When we first arrived at Fairviwe School. It was a two room school with an auditorium in the middle.  There was a buggy shed out back where the early settlers kept the horses and buggies that they came to school on. Off to the right at the back of the school yard was a pump house. I assume that was the place of many first kisses. Now behind the buggy shed there was an eligantly built, combination his and hers out house.This was a classy Out house compared to the run of the mill type family two holer, with two size holes, one for kids ,one for the larger people. This one had a seperation wall between the girls and boys, with a step up little landing; each side had three or four holes of diferent sizes, so when you went to the rest room , it was kind of a community affair.{ good way to meet new friends] I think this is where the phrase,[" community Relief"] got started.

  Now that we have the stage set!  Every kid had his favorite gun or rifle, depending on what kid of stick you could find and how good your imagination was. One thing about these guns was they never ran out of bullets, no matter how many times you went "kuew,kuew ,kuew, or bang ,bang.

   The out house and the pump house became forts,  The good thing about the out house was that you could climb down inside the holes and wait for some kid to some riding by on his stick horse, then you could pop up out othe hole and blaze away at him and yell you`re dead.  These out houses were suppose to be abanded,but occasinallythey were used to save time to run to the rest room at the school house.  Fun was had by all. It`s amazing what an imagination can do.

  Uncle Bill