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she is too busy trying to get into their country place, which is not yet done, and, amid all this, she has Mrs. Hall, and her daughter from Nassau meeting her.
We boarded with Mrs. Hall and found her much nicer than her table.
The weather has been unpleasantly chilly ever since my return until the mast week and now it is beginning to warm up and feel like summer; for which I am glad, in many ways, among others, the horses can be mounted up and are beginning to go fast enough to think of racing about the first of July.
I expect now to race part of my horses in the cart at Portland. Mr. and President R. I., now and now, if I do, will probably go there for a short time, anyway, probably making two trips. Couldn't you have a patient down in that direction about that time?
I'm afraid my trip to the coast is knocked out, but am glad to know I can count on you for any little excursion, "sich as that," and shall, most certainly, hold you to your word, whether meant in jest or not, before the summer is over.
I have just heard word that a party of my friends from town are coming out to the little hotel in this town tomorrow evening and they have kindly invited me to partake of their hospitality, so I suppose this country Jake will be strictly in it. I forgot to mention the event is