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2 I often co illegible Dave to grow nervous about the lake's beauty but have not yet succeeded but he has no fault to find,
he is surely disappointed as to the ease and leisure he promised himself here, he often looks pretty tired and pirplexed about
his books and misses very much that mean? and illegible milk but of all his misses the just mentioned seems the most serous
miss CC But this Miss talk makes me remember miss M illegible Mrs Pelton tells me she is about to be married I hope the dear
girls happiness shall be much increased? thereby The happy mans name is Goodrich he is said to be both good and rich as his
name implys - was a minister once and lives at Dubuque? We have been busy for a while getting our things put right and in
running order We have got nice alchohol cooking apparatus and a plate and a jug if David will please pay us another visit
we shall endeavor to entertain him in a more civilized and becoming manner than I did before I suppose you know by the papers
how war like? things are here, the seventh regiment is preparing to leave, their appearance is very illegible but how can
all the great and showy coa illegible of war hide its real hideousness. I was greatly surprised one evening to find Byron
Harrit one of Mr Peltons nephews who used to help me with the chors at Pr du Chin with soldiers clothes on 00277