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We had to bathe in the river, so everybody wore shimmies or something and washed up under the best they could. And I pretty near lost my baby in the river. Thank God my husband could swim - - I never have been able to, but he was just like a fish, and he glommed her real quick. I was holding her by one leg, and there was a current that started to take her, and I yelled, and Pop got her real quick, thank God, because she’s right here in the audience tonight!

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