Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1859-07-20
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was tbe elaass daughter, and shp
oldest Ohila, with Che exception of enc
IN M fasher's famiiy; and my brOthsl
being fsry delicate child, and only Il
msnshs DID, at the sims of my birth ht
Repaired all the care and atssnkion Of nay
mother 20 Aunt Hester kindly sook th'
responsibility Of yaisMg me, (as she
tsrmsd is) on herself and she manag-
| ed, by SYSTEM Of over indulgence and
foolish forbesxsnes on her part, to In
still into nag youthful mind the iasa,
that was very apt and claysg. .l
When was bat CHILD, ali my little
sayings, were reported 10 svary member
of the family, - il somsthing almost
supsr-kunan, While, ~ grew elder,
my COED qualities wsrs psradsd Is some
thing uncommon; bat my many failSmoa,
my willfallnsss and EooIish vanity, were
kept By Aans Hester, entirely In the back
grounds.
And thus the time passed with us at
home, until had attained nav seven
tssnth year, when uy father determined
to send me away to school.
This was : great rial FOR Aunt Hss.
ter, and she opposed it with all har 81
cusAomed energy, brinzing forward sy-
cry objection, which her very active inn
aginati0n could possibly invent, 10 de-
Ter me from going but to ali thess OBJ
jeetions my father turnsd a deaf ear--his
mind was made IN, that / should astand
the Academy at Greenfield, the coming
spring tsrm. Grssu6eld Village was
only thirty-two miIss distant. The
Aea6syuv al that nlana. had kba rsnuts.
ton of being the best school oil the kind
in the State; and In fact, nv father had
already written, to AEr. Gavin, the Pre-
osptor, that he should place me- IN b;s
school for q rear or two, and to engage
boarding and make anv other necessary
arrangements for nv rsoeOtion.
Mr. Gavin was an acquaintance, If not
a personal friend of my fathers; his
wife was LADY Of great worth and abiI-
ity. and he woold feel psrfsstlv snfa and
satisfied to place me at school under
their protection.
With ray mother, nv fathers will.
was Law and, having received a sasis-
factory reply from MIR. Gavin. informing
us that tae sprfng sarm Of the Academy.
commenced ths arss of March; and as ia
was already the beginning of shs second
week In February, We set about making
active preparations for nv leaving
home.
Now, | must say, the plan pleased me
extremely we'll. I had never been far
ther from home than MiIton; . liale
town twelve miles distant. had been
brought up, much AZ New England faru,.
ers rear their daughters.
For ak months in the year. attended
the district school, where the pupils are
taaRht 70 read, write. and esuher. and
some other Of shs common branches Of
education.
When ous Of school. | balpsa Ia do mn
the work In the forenoon, and do the
chores at night. When SUNDAY come.
We all rode 10 meeting in ths one.horsa
wagon, taking q smaII l,sneh for saab
ons, in = rssicuie made for tbe narro.a
My mother and Aunt Hester, we're nam. |
bsrs Of the old Congregational Church.
which had long been established Al tbs
middle Of shs town Of NidaIasowu
My father (who bore shs title a. Esa
Fairbaaks1 aiwavs attended ahurnh w;sb
his farniIy. bus vas uos = msmbsr
of course, / did not particularly d.
sire to be separated from nv usrenss
Auns Hester, my iiasle broshsrs and sis.
sers, bat WAS pleased with the thouxhs
of going from Mlddlssown Of forming
nsw asquainsancss, and did really like |
lny book, and Was pleased 10 have an ox-I
negsaaisy so aavanas Ia learning Hsssa
knowledge.
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rsnss wers decided, 6aa thaa we WIRE
acanaliy making nTwnarasss ions Sar snx saa4