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If you dont like the letter I send you in place of the sketch
you asked just please tell me frankly and I will try and do
better some time when I am not so tired and have fewer
demands upon my leisure hours. I have never been in the
habit of writing off hand sketches. I know it is a great defect
in ^[illegible] Education ^and but one ^which I mean to exert myself to correct.
There are some very interesting places within a few miles of my
home which I should like to tell you about if it were possible
to visit them now in order to refresh my memory: but you
must know that the snow efffectually shuts out all of the land=
=scape except the tops of the fences and the trees. Such grand
sleighing as we have had for six or seven weeks is what would
^us city folks good to behold. And I hardly need add we have
our "improved the opportunity" as they ^say at the methodist meetings.
Speaking of meetings reminds me that revivals are all the rage,
just now. Every school district can boast an illuminated house
until midnight for seven nights of the week to say nothing of the
love feasts and class meetings on Sundays.
Mother has been out to Aunt Hill's on a visit and she says
our well beloved cousin Laura has been converted in the most
approved manner. Willie, the wicked fellow, did take her up in his
arms and carry her home one night from a noisy meeting but I
dare say she did not mind persecution much. -
Don't musunderstand me Bob, I don't mean to say anything at all
improper and would'nt for any consideration have you think me unrefined -
but I have'nt the least particle of reservation for such sort of things and
I can't feign what I don't feel.
I think possibly [illegible] might make the same remark about
my letter that he did of yours and with equal truth - but I will surely
do better some time when I am not so very tired as I am tonight
Much love to the friends --- Your cousin Annie Kennicott