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Friday night I passed the candy around among the boys, and they all enjoyed it, for, as you know probably, we hard working students are comparitive strangers to such delicacies. Mrs Petree especially liked the white creams, which, I suppose you yourself made. She has made several unsuccessful attempts to make creams, and she has complimented your confectionary-making abilities whenever she had a chance to. I readily saw

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that her compliments expressed a great inclination to sample the candy again, so, Saturday night, I treated some of the boys again, and when I offered the box to Mrs Petree she took the well beloved creams.

By this time there was but very little of the candy left, so, taking half of my cake and the candy, I trudged off to my chums house, about a quarter of a mile away, and we two then had a most festive and glorious birth-day party