. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . His Heart wasBrolcen. — How Two Wives Rebelled. — The Husband in a Fix. — HeRuns Away from Home. — Dismisses his Plural Wife. — Being Sealed to Old Women for Eternity. — Nancy Chamberlains Story. — Who isto be Brighams Queen in Heaven. — An Old Wife Dresses Up as aGhost. — How Brother Shaw Replenished his Exchequer. — The Bat-tles Between my Fathers Wives. — My Mother Enjoys his Troubles.— The Story of a Turkey. — A First Wife Ass
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . His Heart wasBrolcen. — How Two Wives Rebelled. — The Husband in a Fix. — HeRuns Away from Home. — Dismisses his Plural Wife. — Being Sealed to Old Women for Eternity. — Nancy Chamberlains Story. — Who isto be Brighams Queen in Heaven. — An Old Wife Dresses Up as aGhost. — How Brother Shaw Replenished his Exchequer. — The Bat-tles Between my Fathers Wives. — My Mother Enjoys his Troubles.— The Story of a Turkey. — A First Wife Asserts Her Rights. — MyLife at South Cottonwood. — I Receive Offers of Marriage. FTER my divorce, Iwent with my motherto live at my fathersfarm in South Cotton-wood. Here, I think, I washappier than I hadever before been in mylife. My health wasmuch improved, andwhat with the care ofmy children and theportion of the house-hold duties which Iassumed to assist mymother, my days werewell filled. My boyswere growing healthy, hearty, rollicking fellows, and theyreturned my care with all the love which the most jealousheart could Grdma what is Pol\gamy? grandma, do you like polygamy? 413 How thankful I was that they were not girls ! I knewtoo well the troubles of my sex in polygamy to wish to bringone girl into the world, who, under the system, would besure to endure such certain suffering. I made up my mindto teach my boys to shun it, even if it was a vital part ofmy religion. I was willing to accept all else that Mormon-ism taught, and to teach its underlying principles to myboys; but that I could teach them was right. Young as they were, they realized something of poly-gamy from hearing it constantly talked of; for when anytwo women meet, it is the chief topic of their conversa-tion, and they knew enough to discover that it was some-thing that was decidedly unpleasant; but what it was, they,of course, had not the slightest idea. Still, with th
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