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Correspondence to Albert Miller from family and friends, Boone County, Iowa, 1876-1916
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(2) I. L. KEPHART, A. M., ACTUARY U. B. Mutual Aid Society of Pa., AND EDITOR "MUTUAL AID JOURNAL." Lebanon, Pa., ____, 188 learn an old dog new tricks. Nursing a baby must certainly be a new trick for you; but I think I hear you saying that you are not an old dog, so that makes the difference. And there's that George. He is married and got a boy baby too, or, I hear his wife has (what big mistakes a fellow will make when he is excited, for we all know no man ever had or ever can have a baby. It takes a woman for that) But I was going to say, you tell that boy George, that I say if he does not call that boy baby Isaiah Lafayette Kephart Miller, after me, I'll never own him for a cousin. Creation! What a mistake I have made! I just now looked at your letter again, and see that you only say that George will be married a year in October, and you do not say one word about a boy baby. Now that is too bad. Don't tell George about it. After all it don't matter much I suppose, for if they do not have a baby now, they are sure to have one sometime in October, and if it is a boy, then tell him what I say about the name. But it was dumb in me to make such a badish mistake, I can only account
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(2) I. L. KEPHART, A. M., ACTUARY U. B. Mutual Aid Society of Pa., AND EDITOR "MUTUAL AID JOURNAL." Lebanon, Pa., ____, 188 learn an old dog new tricks. Nursing a baby must certainly be a new trick for you; but I think I hear you saying that you are not an old dog, so that makes the difference. And there's that George. He is married and got a boy baby too, or, I hear his wife has (what big mistakes a fellow will make when he is excited, for we all know no man ever had or ever can have a baby. It takes a woman for that) But I was going to say, you tell that boy George, that I say if he does not call that boy baby Isaiah Lafayette Kephart Miller, after me, I'll never own him for a cousin. Creation! What a mistake I have made! I just now looked at your letter again, and see that you only say that George will be married a year in October, and you do not say one word about a boy baby. Now that is too bad. Don't tell George about it. After all it don't matter much I suppose, for if they do not have a baby now, they are sure to have one sometime in October, and if it is a boy, then tell him what I say about the name. But it was dumb in me to make such a badish mistake, I can only account
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