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Bertie Turner - Alabama

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summer to take a vacation for a few days, and visit around some, but you know they would not let me go. They are by me like children would be by their mother.

"We do not have much to eat," Bertie Turner apologised, as she took from the new Home Comfort range a delicious-looking pan of egg bread, a dish of home-made sausage, a large bowl of scrambled eggs, and a pot of steaming hot black coffee.

"Fred Wright was sent here to live with us because his mind is just not right. He has three married sisters, but they had rather pay his board here than to have him with them. They go in high society, and because he is slow mentally, they just don't want him, just to tell the truth about it. He is very pleasant, and all right physically, and never gives any trouble. I just don't see how they can be that way, and they are not so good about paying his board either. Sometimes it is six months before I get my pay. He has all his money invested, or they did it for hom, and he gets a little money along from that. I suppose I shouldn't worry, but I can't help thinkin' about it," she said as she placed the plates on the table.

At 1:30 the dinner was all ready for her boarders and a tempting meal it was. When the two old ladies, both wearing sunbonnets, which they did not take the trouble to remove, were seated at the table, Bertie Tuner stood over the table as she bowed her head and said: "Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for this food, and for all other blessings. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen." I wonder why Fred does not come to his dinner," she said as she went again to look for him. -- Fred must have been a little timid as he never came in while I was there.

With dinner over, Bertie Turner began putting the kitchen in

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