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except the oldest son. My
younger brother has managed
to work his way and get to school
some, and has helped my only
sister, who is younger than I. She
is now teaching her first district
school, and though she has not
yet acquired the education she
so much wants, of course she can
be self supporting from now on,
although she cannot make
enough this year to pay up, for her
board and tuition the past year,
though she was just as saving as
she could be, while at school in
the little village. She boarded
with a private family and did
her own washing and ironing
on Saturdays to save expense.

And now my brother has
gone to W. Va. to dig in the coal-