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mine, and battle his way for
the future, hoping to make mon-
ey enough so he can read med-
icine, or learn some good
profession.

I am somewhat frail,
have never had good health
since I came into womanhood.
I have always wanted to go to
school and get to the place where
I could make something for
myself and better my condition.
But I have never gone to school
away from home a day in
my life. I [mean?] that I never
went to any except to our home
school here, and was then some-
times deprived of going on account
of sickness or having to stay at
home to assist in work, hoping
that a better day would come.
And I suppose you could not
imagine what our school was
in comparison with the