Memoir and personal recollection of . in training her daughters for the mostsolemn relation in life, I got a wife whose fidelityand ambition to make her own a real home, I couldever after unhesitatingly^ confide in. I never hadany trouble making both ends meet, no matter whatmy income was, and was never afraid to invite afriend to come home with me for dinner, even onwash-day. The father always insisted on his pretty twinsdressing alike; this added to the difficulty of tellingone from the other, which was very perplexing toyoung men who attempted to court them in after never c
Memoir and personal recollection of . in training her daughters for the mostsolemn relation in life, I got a wife whose fidelityand ambition to make her own a real home, I couldever after unhesitatingly^ confide in. I never hadany trouble making both ends meet, no matter whatmy income was, and was never afraid to invite afriend to come home with me for dinner, even onwash-day. The father always insisted on his pretty twinsdressing alike; this added to the difficulty of tellingone from the other, which was very perplexing toyoung men who attempted to court them in after never could be sure whether he was taking homehis girl or the other fellows from church. Thepicture shows the two girls I decided to select a wifefrom. You will readily see it required as much skillto perform the feat as it did to successfully pilot apair of coal boats. In the first place there was afather and mother who prided themselves on havingtwo of as pretty and good girls as were to be found,and woe-betide the dude with his hair parted in the. J. B. COREY AND WIFE. 1853.(See page 48.)
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