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    Miss Mattie: a Rags to Riches Story
    Miss Mattie: a Rags to Riches Story
    Miss Mattie: a Rags to Riches Story
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    Miss Mattie: a Rags to Riches Story

    By Robert Ray Moon

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    The story of a young girl from a small town who is placed as a ward with a rich woman. She studies and works hard to become very successful. A rags to Riches story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Ray Moon
    Release dateAug 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301638819
    Miss Mattie: a Rags to Riches Story
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    Robert Ray Moon

    I am married to Hazel for 66 years. We have 4 grown children. We are retired ministers and are each writing a blog. I am currently writing fictional continued stories on my blog and publishing e-books.

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      Miss Mattie - Robert Ray Moon

      MISS MATTIE

      by Robert Ray Moon

      Copyright © 2013 byRobert Ray Moon

      Published by Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781301638819

      All rights reserved: No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means - - electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording or by any other – except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the permission of the author.

      Chapter 1

      The town was named Samsville. A man named Sam stopped one day and decided to build a house right where he stood. In order to have mail delivered they needed to have a name for the town so they named it after Sam.

      People weren’t bothered about deeds there at the time, but of course later things changed, and there was some government regulations put in place. It seemed too many people were claiming the same property so something had to be done.

      Sam started out by buying pelts from the trappers around there, and when he had a wagon load he would haul his load over to the big city. From his profits he bought some canned goods, dried beans, rice and such. Before long he had himself a general store.

      The next business to come into town was a blacksmith shop and other shops came soon after until there was a small town grown up around Sam's store.

      There was another man who started a feed and grain store and he took on a partner named Mays. Mays was married, and had three girls, and then his wife left off bearing children. They couldn't figure out why that was and it bothered Mr. Mays because he had always wanted a boy.

      Mattie was only five when she asked her mother, Why did you name me Matthew? I hate that name. Her momma said; Well your Pa wanted a boy so bad, and when you turned out to be another girl he decided to name you a boys name; besides, being called Mattie ain't so bad, is it?

      Mattie replied, Well I guess not but I expect I will have a lot of trouble with it in the future.

      Mattie and her folks lived on the edge of town, and had fresh eggs every morning from their chickens. On the backside of their lot they kept some hogs for meat and to make lard.

      Because their family was small (only three kids) they could get by with only two hogs for the year. Sometimes they had ham and sometime it was fat back. The fat back was a versatile piece of meat you could cook it in beans.

      You could also fry the fat back until it was crisp for breakfast. To those folks anything pork that was cured and smoked tasted real good. They used cracklings for baiting their traps

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