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cook, how to keep their own houses clean, and how to go out and work for other people who wanted a little cooking done, or a little housecleaning done. We don't know what became of these people, because in one way or another they, of course, drifted apart after the WPA project was over.

There was a great deal of special teaching done. The WPA teachers, kindergarteners, and child care people of one kind or another worked together in playgrounds, in day nurseries and all that kind of thing. There was a great variety that type of work, as well as of the straight labor work.

The word “boondoggle” came in by pure accident and it was a dirty trick that it was used. The word “to boondoggle” is a perfectly good colloquial term which the cowboys use in the West when they patch up their saddles, or their harness, or their gear generally. Their gear breaks, or it somehow needs to be repaired. In bad weather, or in weather when they aren't out branding the stock, or whatever it is they do, they fix up their, gear. “Boondoggle” means to repair it, patch it, get it in order. They said, “I've got to boondoggle this afternoon.” They use the word to mean that they will fix up the gear, fix up the saddles, the bridles, the harnesses, or whatever it is.