Adventures While Babysitting

This story happened around 1947 when my younger sister, Virginia, was just getting her front teeth. I guess that would put her about one year old and I would be four going on five. We had a rather large garden with an orchard at one end. On this day, my mother decided to work in the garden, probably chopping weeds.This would take some time so she put Virginia into an apple crate or apple box as…