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doubt she says a great many very true things.

I17 Ruby says she will only teach for two years after she gets through and then she intends to be married. Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching and never, never marry because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, I expect Jane and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money. I expect Jane speaks from (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)mournful(end superscript) experience, for Mrs. Lynde says that her father is a perfect old crank and meaner than poison. second skimmings.

K17 —gone just when she most needed its sustaining power.