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3 Now Dan if all of these loving letters from loving girls are really lost you in justice to yourself and them should l
illegible in rhyme l illegible in prose as I have done over the loss of Jesus? . I do not feel as though I could write at
all tonight for you may never receive this, and besides I cannot tell what you know what you do not know of our hollow news,
running the risk how- ever of being dull, and of telling the same thing twice over I will write some news like rows? of word
in a spelling book A Jay has wedded a Raven ( Albion? ), Mary Ann Whitelaw has married Hugh Young, Ducan Sterling has returned
home. illegible Jay is hired here for a year 4 Mr Trout has been very sick for three weeks, is slowly getting well The
people of Meaford speak of building a steam mill in thei? village soon - We have a new stable and a new clearing? - The family
of Mr Spratford ran away from him a few days ago but he caught the fryit illegible at Collingwood and would not let them secede.
The sawmill is now run by a (Mr) Lake, but we still need the pond - the saw runs so hithery thithery that the sawyer is supposed
to be illegible We have had very stormy weather and driffins many illegible We have just finished the making of 30,000 broom
handles for a firm in Toronto I turned 28,000 of them I turned over 2300 one day I invented an important