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believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk skunk cabbage. I suppose my father could have been a good man even if he had been called Jedediah: but I’m sure it would have been a cross. Well, my mother was a teacher

I3 I should think a mother would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to scrub, wouldn’t you?

J3. Mrs. Thomas was at her wits’ end, what so she said, what to do with me[.]

K3. There is a piece in the Fifth Reader—’The Downfall of Poland’ that is just full of thrills. Of course I wasn’t in the Fifth reader—I was only in the Fourth—but the big girls used to lend me theirs to read.”