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had he writes in very good spirits & health
I love to get his letters they are so jolly and
homelike I think he yearns for home and
Mary and it is very strange to me that he
consented to stay another year I think [Buzzel]
was glad enough that he could stay another year
I made them a call last week they have got
26 little chickens & one of their cows had twin
calves & their old sheep (they have but one) had
twins - our old goose is sitting on 14 eggs
we put 2 under a hen. hope I shall get
down enough this year to finish my comforter
[Eri] Morse has got 24 goslings Sophia Persons
is in the interesting situation sh was in
when we made her a call after [camp] meet-
ing but she can't get ahead of [Lempie]
Mary has spent about 2 weeks at home this
spring I went over & made her a visit
she wears her hair in curls & she has
got to be pretty good [complect] on the
whole she is very much improved in appearance
& looks Wallace Gray is married I supposed
he & Mary were engaged she was free to
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speak of him We have a very good girl
this summer quite lively & knows something
we have not got our house as near cleaned
as Mary we have papered the dining room &
my bed room I shall paint the kitchen floor
soon I think Aunt Mary started Tuesday morn
for [Amos] [Dwinells] will be gone for 6 or 8 weeks
if they will let her she has been very
good only she got so she wanted to go some-
where Dorcas is about the same as when you
were hereon only poorer Samantha was down
Saturday she thought she coudl see she had
grown much poorer it had been about 8
weeks since she had seen her Austin & Sarah
have a nice little boy & they think it is
as cute as a little wagon I have not seen it but
once I am having my old florence hat pressed
into the [artless] I think I shall triam it with
black I think I shall get [Lenora] a pique
& trim it with fringed blue silk will it be
pretty? We have not called on Jesse yet
but intend to with Horace & Mary soon
Celinda Vincent has got the Elias Howe sewing
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