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    by

   EMERSON HOUGH

    AUTHOR OF: The Sagebrusher, Hearts Desire, The Covered Wagon,

    Curly of the Range, etc.

   ILLUSTRATED

    SAINT PAUL

   J. E. HAYNES,

    Publisher

    1921

   COPYRIGHT 1920

   THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

   COPYRIGHT 1921

   EMERSON HOUGH

   “Maw”

     T

    imes

   has changed, says Maw to herself, says she. Things ain't like what

   they used to be. Time was when I worked from sunup to sundown, and we didn't have no daylight-saving contraptions on the old clock, neither. The girls was too little then, and I done all the work myself—cooking, sweeping, washing and ironing, suchlike. I never got to church Sundays because I had to stay home and get the Sunday dinner. Like enough they'd bring the preacher home to dinner. You got to watch 

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