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moonlight. We appropriated a number of figs from one of the fig-trees in the orchard, and suffered no qualms of conscience therefrom, I'm sorry to say.

It was a very pleasant ride, and thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Tell papa that no remittance was ever more thoughtfully received than those six dollars that were sent to me when I had but a five cent piece in my pocket.

And by the way, I was looking over my expenses today, and found that I had spent $50.50 the first month of school!

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But this is not so much when you consider the fact that one has to pay registration fee; then books, you know, cut quite a little figure, moreover the expense we went to fitting up our rooms has come to considerable.

I mentioned at the dinner-table to day my expenditure for the first month, and the boys did not seem to think it a great am't for they said it was likely to come high during the first month of college.

So Mama you need not be alarmed that I have been squandering money for I can account for every