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do it all for you aber nitzki!!! But I'll help you all I can - aber yah!!!

Rome is a big subject to discuss and I should advise you to take some phase of it. In your letter you have the following expression "Picker of Rum." What it may mean I don't know, nor can I even conjecture. It looks like "Picker of Rum" - If this is a drinking club you have joined - I want to reprimand you severely for one of your maturity joining an anti temperance association. Rum is the vice of America and a "picker" of it - well someone will be intoxicated! - Good by

Fred.

Stanford, May 6, 1900.

My dear Mamma:

I am very sorry that I could not go home this week, but stress of work and other things prevented it. I have the usual tale to tell: "Driving hard, finishing up my work, trying to graduate." You have my sincerest sympathy in your illness. I know how it is, because I have been feeling under the weather since last Wednesday. Someway or other