(FAMILY CIRCLE AMUSEMENT)

Now in being so very young when I married with a truthful jolly husband, nine years my Sr, and when my children came in the early years, it seemed that they were partly growing up with me. There was already

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music in the house, and all were fond of music. The dear old folks were kind and helpful, and they too were fond of music. So we were a jolly set with our children after then had grown up to a certain size, we would play, sing, dance, and amuse one another in different ways, especially at night, when Papa was with us, therefore making the home pleasant and joy, as if all were children together. My eldest boy, Peter and girl had never called me Mamma, until after the death of grandmopther when they were then with me, and they began calling Mamma and Papa - yet we would have our play hours together.

The last sixteen or seventeen years of my husbands life, while he was able to go, were spent in the service of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barrett and family. They were very kind to him while in their

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service and even after he had failed in health, and had to give up his work. Mrs. Barrett would visit him regular once a week and would always remember him with a contribution , and would make kind offers to aid in whatever he needed, up to the last days of his life. Mrs. Barrett and her daughter have shown many acts of kindness to me, even since my husbands death. I generally call to see them two or three times during the year and always meet me pleasantly. Then they also remember me with a gift at Christmas time, and occasionally through the seasons, as a token of remembrance of the faithfulness of my husband and their interest in him during his life. His last days in strength and service were given in their family for seventeen years.

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