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2 that will be, unless you should chance to come home sometime. I should have liked it very well if I had been with you
riding on the iron horse. I should not have wanted to be so far forward on him as to have been on the cow catcher. I should
have been afraid I might have been caught myself. I should have been contented a little farther back. I have not had a ride
on the cars since we came up the country. I should like very well to have one now. It would not be a very pleasant sight to
see any creature run into and knocked off from the track by the engine. I guess the old cows would have thought the old horse
rather saucy if they could have thought anything about it. I want to know how you are getting on now and what you have got
to study at the University, if it is anything like going to common school, how many goes to it, and what you have to pay