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The Grove My Dear Cousin Bob: Alice is writing to you so I thought I would a few lines too Dila has gone in town to the care of Laura I [illegible] that you know that she is sick with the [illegible], Uncle Asa wrote that she suffered very much. It is very lonesome in our house when Dila is gone I hope that she will come home soon Miss Boyden is staying at our house she went out to the [illegible] [illegible] wi th us Alice Cora Amasa Fanny James and I the Miss Boyden and your brothers and sister went again yester day, Amasa says that she can skate very well. We have not as many scholars this terme as we had last time. I must stop now and get my Geography lesson for I have not looked at is and the fourth readr class is reading. Pleas excuse the mis takes to this good by Emma