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time to read the papers.

I was much amused by your illustration of the oath. The extended hand is graceful (!) to say the least, and very threatening withal. The hand with the spread-out fingers looks as if some rascal had just raised it to his nose - only the nose doesn't appear in the picture.

When I read the news of the final decision of the court in our case I became so ecstatic that I instantly determined to celebrate the event by buying some candy with one of the dimes you sent; but on a second and wiser thought I "revoked my decision,"

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and went without.

So you saw Mrs Irving on 9th. St., did you? and with a young man? O horrors! I am utterly ruined! But, after all, I guess that this fact, if true, will not alarm me very much. Miss Elsie might have seen me here on the Campus in the company of some of our beaming co-eds - and then what would she have said?

I have not yet reached that hopeless stage where I shall be jealous of the young lady, if she accepted attentions from other young men. The world is full of girls, and I shall not suffer by her inattention.