Vickie’s stories from Wes Schneider’s childhood antics reminded me
of a story my mom told me. It may have been Wesley Schneider or Wesley
Johnson, I’m not too sure which, made a bet one morning on the way to
country school that he could swallow a hard boiled egg, whole. They were
riding in the horse drawn school hack and were just wasting time anyway.
She said the kids told him he couldn’t do it so out of pride, he popped
it in his mouth and swallowed. She said they could see it slowly moving
down his throat and then tears came to his eyes and he couldn’t breath!
He did manage to get through the ordeal and won his bet. She also told
me that the kids would each bring along a stick of wood for the heater
(wood stove) in the hack and put it in from the outside where the stove
door was located. She said ‘one’ of these two Wesley’s also once threw a
dead chicken in the heater and it stunk up the hack so bad that all the
kids and the driver had to jump out and air the thing out! I wonder if
Vickie could ask Wes if he was the culprit or if it was Wesley Johnson?
He may admit it after 70 years or so. Thanks Gary and Vickie!

Dick