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2 under your feet, as well as the birds winds streams I had almost said pianos. I m glad too that your cousin Lou is with
you to take walks talks awful big drinks of wisdom. The iron industry is not very brisk or crisp here you may tell her, neither
hair or hay is very dry I suppose the may-dukes peaches will soon be ripe then you will all have a good time making breaking
those things you call cobblers . You may tell mama grandma that I was at another champagne supper last night, I have to go
to another tonight, but my stomach seems happy behaves like a gentleman through it all, though neither me nor my stomach knows
the names or compositions of the dishes we encounter (bad grammar this last sentence see if you or Lou can correct it. I m
sure you could nt correct the cooking.) By the way, tell grandma that I ate Enlalia s? lunch the other day, the lunch of Princess
Enlalia? The lunch in whose veins runs the blood of 01679 3 Royalty Kings, Queens, Columbus, Spain, etc. Or a lunch
like all this that. This was a very notable lunch but I fear you don t understand it, no wonder for I don t myself but though
very mysterious, it was very delicious no bad effects followed the eating of it none I hope will follow your reading of it.
The only part of it that frightened me was the big spider-like soft shelled crabs, illegible or something of the sort required
that every part of the monstrous marine insects should be eaten, claws, maws, spiny whiskers all. So you see this royal lunch
was a most formidable affair though very beautiful like a blue glacier c illegible asse. It was through Mr Johnson I got into
it or rather it got into me. Judge Howland was also in it but neither he nor Johnson was afraid. I wrote a long letter to
mama yesterday but forgot to tell her that when we were in Cambridge we went to Col. Higginirons home after a long pleasant
talk he took us to the homes of Lowell Longfellow Both of them are just as they were when their famous owners were living
in them MR Higginson knew them