Joseph T. O’Donnell
Chapter 41
Building his house took great work ethic, and initiative. Some of it had rubbed off on me. I would pitch pennies, shine shoes, and collect and trade soda bottles for coins. Quarters were big coin. Dimes and nickels were average, and pennies were small coin. They added up though. I didnâ€&#x;t make the trip up to his growing house every day. I tried to make a little money for myself and the family. Well mostly for candy money and maybe someday I could buy my own bicycle. My father so frugal scrimping for twenty years never imagined I would need a few dimes for candy. Sorry to say saving everything I earned all the time did not really stick. But I was willing to work, as long as there was a reward at the end of the day. I