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she has grown out of my recollection altogether, &
if I stay out here much longer I am afraid
that all of my acquaintances will have changed
so that it will be difficult for me to recognise [recognize]
them. I expect that Charles is now larger than I am,
& Harriet I suppose she has grown so that I should
scarcely know her, as for yourself, it seemed to me
as though you had changed but little, as I do not
think you have altered much for the past ten years.

As for myself, I look just the same as when I
left home & weigh just the same, so if you know
how I looked when I left home, you know how I look
now.

I suppose that Chas. & Harriet now attend the
district school the same as they usually do as I
expect that the old custom of commencing school
the first Monday after Thanksgiving is still kept
up. I think Chas. wrote me that he thought Abel
P. Lawrence would teach this winter & if he does
they will probably have a good school.

Yesterday was "Christmas" & a lovely day too.
Early in the morning it was cool & frosty, but after
the Sun got up it was warm & pleasant. The day
passed with me the same as all holidays do although
Public Worship was held in All the churches both day
& evening but I did not attend nor have I been
inside a church for over a year & but two or three
times since I left home, which is now nearly two
years although it does not seem hardly so long --