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1 circled: 13 in margin: Annie says please send a postal immediately if she is to send the money Portage, Jan. 30, 77.
Dear Sister May, How do you do, and how do you like Summer weather in January? Have you had any sleigh riding during the
week past? I sup- pose you are too much a person of business to indulge underlined: much in so unpractical a use of time but
as I am not a use- ful member of society I have spent nearly every afternoon of late in a cutter and with no Little Billy
in front of it either. The fact is, David has now a horse which I can deleted: drive manage and 2 also a very nice little
cutter and as Katie like myself has plenty underlined: time at command we make excellent use of both. I doubt not that you
have been having a very enjoyable time entertaining a special friend of yours He made us a fleeting call one morning somewhere
between midnight and 7 -30 A.M. He seemed some- how to be suddenly emptied into the kitchen to the great dismay of Annie whose
basque was still lying in the rocking chair but who with her skirts on and a shovel most expeditiously wrapped about her shook
hands quite dignifiedly and then made as