Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
a child deserved a whipping I de-served the one I got then. I spent one week in that garret. My breakfastsand dinners and suppers were brought up to me, a piece of cloth for pillow-cases, and I was to hemtowels and make pillow-cases, and she would keepan exact account of it all, at the same prices… … always the very same food I should have had down-stairs. At night I was taken down and put to bed.and in the morning I was dressed and led back tomy jail. I was allowed to have some books, and Ihad another occupation about which I will tell you,because I think it was the best part of my…
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