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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:20 I DISCOURAGE COMPARISONS. unvarnished history, I had almost a deadly objection to widowers owin' to their habit of comparin' their second wives to their first relict, to the disadvantage of the first-named pardner. Josiah tride it with me when wo was first married. But I didn't encourage him in it. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:20 I DISCOURAGE COMPARISONS. unvarnished history, I had almost a deadly objection to widowers owin' to their habit of comparin' their second wives to their first relict, to the disadvantage of the first-named pardner. Josiah tride it with me when wo was first married. But I didn't encourage him in it. He began on several various times, " It seems to me Samantha that Polly Ann used to fry up her meat a little cripsier," or " It seems as if Polly Ann used to make my collers a little stiffer." He stopped it before we had been married a year, for 1 didn't encourage it in him. As I mean that this book shall be a Becon light, guidin' female wimniun, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of true happiness, I would insert right here this word of solem' warn in' to my sect situated in the tryin' place of second consorts, if the relict goes to comparin' you to his foregone consort, don't encourage him in it. On this short rule hangs the hope of domestick harmony. ABOUT JOSIAH AND THE CHILDREN. BUT step-mothers have a pretty hard row to hoe, though I don't complain. I like children, clean children first rate, and I have tried to do my duty by hisen. I have done as well by 'em as I knew how to, and I think a sight of Thomas Jefferson and Tirzah Ann. Tirzah Ann is dreadful sentimental, that is what spiles her mostly. And Thomas Jefferson thinks he knows more than his father, that is his greatest failin'. But take 'em all through, they are full as good as other folks'es children, and I know it. Thomas Jeffersonis dreadful big feelin', he is 17 years old, he wears a stove pipe hat, and is tryin' to raise a moustache, it is now jest about as long as the fuzz on cotton flannel and most as white. They both go to Jonesville to high school, (we hire a room for 'em to Mother Aliens, and they. Books, Fiction~~General, My-Opinions-And-Betsy-Bobbets~~Marietta-Holley, 999999999, My Opinions And Betsy Bobbet's, Marietta Holley, 1120330920, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781120330925

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