So we would get the letters that were written to Marlin Perkins. That’s how I learned how to type. We had to type out the answer. A lotta times we had to go to library and learn because we didn’t know the answers so we had to research it. And then we’d make a yellow-skin copy with carbon paper. That was before we had any other way of copying things. And then he would get the onion skin when he was back in town. And before they went out in the mail, he would critique ’em.
