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2 changes that we little folks had passed through. In the last six or eight months there have been other changes. Merrill
is at home now. has been reading Blackstone this fall will soon enter a law office. He is the same teasing, careless enthusitic
fellow I might add unselfish, for he is that, although a little spoiled. When at home, he can go to sleep a dozen times a
day, sitting up or spread out on the floor, it makes no difference in what position he is. I shall not be surprised to see
him sometime standing in the middle of the room sound a- sleep. But he can work hard enough to make up for his naps, he has
been digging away at the law very perseveringly, instructing Mamma as he went along. Poor Mamma would perhaps be 3 reading
an interesting magazine article when Merrill would break in with Oh Mamma, you must hear this . I believe you used to think
him too find of newspapers, well, he has the same fault now, if fault it is. But I must tell you of the others. Katie Graydon
graduated in June Indeed she never looked so beautiful never appeared so well as she did on that day. Everybody praised her
she deserved it. I know you like fresh rosy good girls and she is one. She is teaching here now, in the city a has her hands
full. Charles I still go to illegible gton. This is my last year and I am enjoying myself. We have been hearing lectures from
Prof. Jordan on the glaciers It is a very interesting sub- 00821