The book I Married a Soldier; Or, Old Days in the Old Army was written by author Lydia Spencer Lane Here you can read free online of I Married a Soldier; Or, Old Days in the Old Army book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is I Married a Soldier; Or, Old Days in the Old Army a good or bad book?
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The man must have needed a housekeeper badly to marry old Martin. The nurse took her place in the kitchen, and I had to teach her everything. I was more capable then than when I undertook to instruct Mike, the Irish- man, in the art of cooking. We managed not to starve. We had cows which gave us all the milk and butter we required, I doing all the butter-making myself A great deal of the milk I gave to the soldiers stationed at Marcy, and also sent it to my neighbors, who had none. I remember m...y indig- nation when an officer, who had not been long in the army, asked me to sell him some, and the wife of an officer, whose baby I had supplied with new milk, sent to me for her bill I I was very fond of Santa Fe, and enjoyed living there, — ^the old place was so fiir behind the times. The strange customs of the people and the funny sights we saw would amuse you, but I cannot well go into particulars. Fandangos and balls were of nightly occurrence. I had heard so much, and been told so often, of the g^eat beauty of the Mexican belles who graced the dances with their presence that I determined to see them.
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