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2 glaciers etc, etc, have not the effect of making you so dignified and sage that I shall feel bashful when you come home
for I am now too big to hide behind my mother s apron and I should be in a very embarrass- ed condition. Things have mostly,
move on very illegible ly. Dany? has gone to Madison for a few weeks (to which place we forwarded your letter) Annie teaches
and teaches, Mother works and rests, Joanna rests and rests and makes up faces, then 3 rests some more, tries to be patient
and makes up faces again, rests long- er, tries harder yet to be good, then makes up faces underlined: again , Thus the law
of her members wave against the law of her mind, and so keep up quite a c illegible - ading at times . I wonder if you hear
the word hard used as much in Cal. as we do here. In this part of the world the most frequent sub- jects of conversation are,
Hard times, hard money, hard work and hard hearts; In