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Correspondence to Albert Miller from family and friends, Boone County, Iowa, 1876-1916
004-03
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myself and everybody around me & going in the country must spoil me I always have a good time the night before I left three of us girls took a horseback ride our saddles were straps tied around the horses to hold to I am a rider I tell you and the morning I left I milked two cows but you see I wanted to get a certain young farmer in the notion that I would make a good farmers wife but it was all the good it done me and I'll soon be twenty five just think of it and like yourself I am about tired of plodding along alone or rather I am tired of taking care of my self. I did say it was your fault and I say so yet if I was your mother I would tell you to get some one else to mend your socks old bachelors are abominable so hard times is your excuse I didnt think you was so stingy I expect to live in a log hut and
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myself and everybody around me & going in the country must spoil me I always have a good time the night before I left three of us girls took a horseback ride our saddles were straps tied around the horses to hold to I am a rider I tell you and the morning I left I milked two cows but you see I wanted to get a certain young farmer in the notion that I would make a good farmers wife but it was all the good it done me and I'll soon be twenty five just think of it and like yourself I am about tired of plodding along alone or rather I am tired of taking care of my self. I did say it was your fault and I say so yet if I was your mother I would tell you to get some one else to mend your socks old bachelors are abominable so hard times is your excuse I didnt think you was so stingy I expect to live in a log hut and
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