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days filling the beautiful flowers that grow here I think there are some kinds here that I never seen? before I guess too
that you would like to go along the shore to gather shells and pebbles. You would have to take care not to fall over the banks
for they are so steep most every place near our house that you could not go down, or rather if you got started you could do
nothing else but go down. There is an old basswood tree hangs away out over the bank, it is a fine shape to sit or lie on.
You see the lake far down below, it seems as though you would fall right into it if you should roll off I often go there with
a book. When I was lying there the other day I heard an awful loud buzzing I thought surely it was a louder buzz then a bumble
bee could make so I looked below me and there was a dazzly little humming bird. I watched a long while among the berry bushes
and ra illegible and other combusts till illegible fairly left me. I don't know Mary and Anna and Joanna whether you would
like to live in the illegible or no In the morning when you wake instead of hearing two or three roosters crowing you hear
about a hundred all at once and then the locomotives whistle so loud you would almost think the end of their whistles were
in your ears, (not l illegible and so many are running and walking up and down the lots along stairs, and hundreds of common
and uncommon sounds make city sounds very ph illegible , but the thrushes in that fine grove don't seem to care, they whistle
just as they do on the block or burr oaks at Hickory I always keep my window open and so I can hear them fine. I guess you
would like to go to the top of university hall but you would be thinking? the stairs had no end. You could see the city and
far out all around. When its clear you can see two windmills great big ones for working Ive measured how far it was to one
of them a few days ago without going to it, do you know how to do that Mary. It was just a little less than seven miles. You
told me illegible about Dimmond being dead I suppose David Galloway has told you about Mr Mitchell. I think how much better
illegible illegible illegible all the little Mitchells You should all be very good girls will you Mary Will you Anna Will
you Joanna