Fri. June 18, 1897 Wea. cool

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Last night I went to Holtan’s and got a team to take us to the picnic. There was quite a crowd of us in the woods. It rained a little but just enough to make it cool. We played games &c. Rode to the school house with the children and came back and stayed all night at Mrs. Anderson’s. I feel most awfully tired. I jumped rope and played like a girl of 9 years old instead of 19.
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NOTE:
Hilda was born on Sept 18, 1878, so she would not have turned 19 until September of 1897. It is unclear why she would have written "19" -- did she feel 19 already and just made a mistake in what she wrote? Did she have to pretend to be 19 in order to teach? Did the 1878 birthday, documented in so many places, get "changed" for some reason?