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"sick of teaching school in three months"
for any thing. I like it first-rate
now; though it is hard work.

What have you been
doing? and what are you now
doing? and what are you going
to do? I suppose of course you
will attend the great fair. I
would send in some rattle=
snakes. You might take the pre-
mium; doubtless you would.

Do you hear anything
of Charlie Pease now-a-days? Mrs.
Dokers spent three or four days
with us. She is now I suppose in
Chicago. I fear however that they
got caught in the storm at
Milwaukie. You will doubtless
see him in Chicago

Give my best love to
[illegible], and that you may
be always happy is the wish
of
Maria.

I cant make flourishes. "darn it".