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sur- prised at thier return, but then one succeeds often where it is least likely. The rule of probabilities or possibilities
even is void in sending matter to a modern magazine unless one has something transcendently good. Well, I guess I will keep
on mixing words together, and if I do not get them published it is instructive work and may edify my friends. Enclosed find
bill for illegible With best regards to yourself and Mrs. Muir, I am, Yours, C. W. Carruth 01783