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letterhead the exception of an occasional summer vacation in Minnesota, or down on the banks of the Hudson, or in New England.
My enjoyment of life however remains and with it strenuous good health and vigor still. You probably remember I was quite
a student in the languages- and the information? I get from Prof. Butler in Latin Greek has never left me. I have kept up
my studies in the cl illegible s as well as delved? into several of the illegible languages, and I have books of ancient lore
that would stock up a professor's library. I now read daily from twenty to thirty pages of Demosthenes or Plato at my evening
pastime in Greek - reading at sight- lexicons I hardly ever need now- and I illegible ly believe my content inter course?
with the best thoughts of the best men of the past has much to do with keeping up my freshness and illegible of spirit, and
keeping my perspective? f illegible s alert and active? for the fitting discharge of illegible my judicial duties. 04441