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MY SECRET LIFE MY SECRET LIFE

I found that the cook after going to her room used to go down again. Harriet would let her out and she stayed out all night, Harriet letting her in in the morning. One night Harriet did the same, saying her mother was ill. I spoke to the cook about it; she said, “Her mother! pugh—she goes to see the baker." I began to feel very uncomfortable about these tricks in case it came to my mother’s ears, and that I knew of them. "

The cook asked me to look carefully at Harriet’s belly, and explained to me that I should ﬁnd certain marks of her having had a child, and to tell her (cook) if I did. I could not ﬁnd them. “I am sure she has had one for all that,” said cook. I never told Harriet what I had looked for. The cook one day said, “If you tell Harriet what we have done together I will split on you both and tell your mother. I don’t ' care a dam for the place and am tired of service,” so I held my tongue. Harriet always declared she was a virgin until she had me, and that the cook had had two or three children. I did not tell Brown that, for fear of a row between them. Another night that Har- riet stopped out, the cook said, “You may come to me if you are frightened to sleep alone.” I went. She undressed, pissed and farted; but seeing her fat form, into the bed I got. When I was stiff she said if I would tell all about my doings with Harriet I might poke her as I liked. I told her most that she asked me; but she threw my prick out just as I spent for all that. ' o

Things were now uncomfortable, they quarreled so. One night I asked Harriet who was frigging me up, whether the baker d'idnot do it enough to her. She

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