I received this book (unwritten) from my cousin Juss on my last birthday, July eleventh, 1923. I came of legal age then. The guardian government fell, and power fell into my own hands. All the relatives, acquaintances and villagers came with gifts to express their congratulations on the incident. Household cabinets and furniture just rained around me. (Long life, a loving spouse and obedient children to the only one who dared to interrupt the general trend of household furniture with a flower!) I was in the process of establishing a home, an old maid's lonely home. All kinds of noise accumulated, from the piano to the red-sided dust rag. People are very quick to bribe the emigrant, especially the stepmother, who thus gets rid of the mean and ill-tempered stepdaughter and all the stuff that resembles the predecessor in the father's heart. So I received as a gift all my own mother's furniture and things that she had once brought to the house as a dowry. Father had let the carpenter tidy them up a bit.
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