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2 bowing waving, meeting the same winds that rocked them when they stood at home in the woods. After standing in one place
all their lives they now like sightseeing tourists go round the world meeting many a relative from the old home forest. Some
like themselves arrayed in broad canvas foliage, others planted close to shore head downward in mud, holding wharf platforms
aloft to receive the wares of all nations. Imagination enough but I dont know what I'll think of it in the sober morning.
I see by the papers that Swell? is out of school - for which I am at once glad sorry indignant if not more - Love to all
Good night J.M. 01362