Item - Aunt Betsy's Secret

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 25 no. 15 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 15, February 24, 1870 (Issue)
Author:	Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
Date:	February 24, 1870
First Sentence:	We young ladies still lived at 'Hopedale Villa," the prettiest place in the country, so travelers declared, although our neighbors and the towns people at large cried out with sheer envy 'When was Farmer Peabody's old place 'fixed up' and christened with its new name?"
Last Sentence:	The black dresses were now discarded, and there is not this day in the village a prettier or happier wife and mother than our Aunt Betsy.