If the white mare, Lady, could talk would she boast or blush to have been the driving force that created this family of nine daughters and one son on a farm southeast of Will and Charlie Mayo's Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota? These fun stories tell how Lady's horse sense adapted well as an equine nanny to help this family manage without electricity or indoor plumbing as they cultivated barley, corn, music and art during the 1920's Prohibition and 1930's Depression. World War II moved them to St. Paul where they learned to do without nylons and elastic.