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1875-03-17 Page 3
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them there. Well I let them stay there then, but when we came up from tea, Mary came in here and the first thing I thought of was those pictures & I thought perhaps May might possibly take a notion to look in there and get a sight of them, so I pretended to be showing her Dan's and took those & slipped them into my Astronomy for the moment. Well, in a moment, in came La, & Flo, & Grace - & La happened to take up my Astronomy & they lay right there, & May went along & looked at them, & didn't seem at all surprised, but said "yes, that was taken at Walpole & this at Lebanon". Just the moment I saw she had got those, it started me - they had gone far enough before but I thought that was a little mean, and I couldn't help crying, took them & went out of the room down stairs, and
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them there. Well I let them stay there then, but when we came up from tea, Mary came in here and the first thing I thought of was those pictures & I thought perhaps May might possibly take a notion to look in there and get a sight of them, so I pretended to be showing her Dan's and took those & slipped them into my Astronomy for the moment. Well, in a moment, in came La, & Flo, & Grace - & La happened to take up my Astronomy & they lay right there, & May went along & looked at them, & didn't seem at all surprised, but said "yes, that was taken at Walpole & this at Lebanon". Just the moment I saw she had got those, it started me - they had gone far enough before but I thought that was a little mean, and I couldn't help crying, took them & went out of the room down stairs, and
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