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me, is aimin to bring them up right and in the fear of God and the Baptist
Church.

"Sometimes I wish I had more boys, then I'm glad I ain't got no more,
for they're such a responsibility and cost a lot to bring up. Mine don't
always have everything they want, and not always what they're needin neither,
but I do my best for them. Right now they're needin some work on their
teeth. John needs some tonic too, he's been right puny lately, but jest
ain't got the money. I always say the Lord don't send no more younguns
than what a man can tend, and it looks like that in my case.

"I want my younguns to have a better life than what I had, and I'm
hopin that educations will fit them proper fer to make decent livins. I
don't know as yet what all of them is aimin to do, but I'm tryin to put
the idea of some special kind of work in their heads. Letty of course
wants to be a teacher, so ifen I can get her off to college she will be
fixed; I sure hope I can.

"The schools out here ain't so bad neither, they teach all kinds of
things I never learned. They even got business courses and the like, it
makes me wish I could go sometimes. The teachers is pleasant too, and
comes to visit Anne now and agin.

"My younguns all like school, so I never keep them home. They always
have parts in all the school entertainments and do mighty well. Anne and
me always attend these doins and most of the time we enjoy them. Then of
course the younguns like fer us to be on hand. I don't know how to say it,
but it seems that with the things I jest mentioned, and their readin and
writin, they jest learn more than we ever did. It seems they're fitted
better to meet the world and do their part in life when they get through.
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