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2 I was wonderfully amused by your late letter to Janet on the Alaska question. She was half inclined to resent your teasing
but laughed - relaughed, let me see the letter but kept it close hidden from her brothers lest they should harp on the same
string . She likes young Gilbert as a classmate but that is all. Her object in asking you about Alaska I must tell you. You
are well aware that our young people among the kith and kin far out number the older ones. They are grown growing and are
quite impertant. Add to the kindred the young people of the Fourth Church and amongst them there are many jollities and much
fu illegible . 00971 3 The parson s son and Janet wanted to get up some thing new and rare for the Holidays so in September
last they set themselves the arduous task of writing a novel, a tale entitled The Cousins with the illegible tto A chie illegible
ama illegible ye takin notes . A grand sec illebigle it was and a grander taking off of the tribe of Merrills and the other
young people of the Church. They were around all fall, listening and noting illegible all that was said and no one the wiser.
As the story runs? they send off one boys some sight in number to Alaska where they travel - meet Prof. John Muir with a party.
The letter wh. these boys wrote home were full of information smuggled from your published letters from Alaska I should tire
you if I began to give you an outline of the story so forbear. Suffice