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[?] Wis., Feb [?]
Dear cousin,
Your kind letter was received without any difficulty whatever and this morning as my cousin is busy with [?] wprk where my assistance is much needed I will improve the lines by dispensing [?] of my letters.
It is three weeks yesterday since I arrived and [?] the time has been well spent. Last week my cousin Jennie and myself went about three miles from here to her brothers who lives on a farm. It was the season of harvesting [?] and for three days there were twenty
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three in the family, now didn't we have fun? I wouldn't attempt to tell. Next week we plan going again for the same pur pose. The city of [?] numbers about thrity five hundred, is a summer resort for people from Chicago, St. Louis and other large cities and is locatedon four beautiful lakes all connect ed. Last Saturday a party of us went out on the lake, having a delightful boat ride and visiting a small island on which are located three residences belonging to the summer boarders. The homes of some sixty or seventy five of these families adds very much to the beauty and grandeur of the place. This week a larger number of us were going to spend the day on one of the lakes and swim [?], but
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one of the most necessary mem ber of the party was detained and we are indefinitely postponed. I am passionately fond of water so when I came I took the Michigan Central from Buffalo passing through Niagara Falls. All traims stop for nearly quarter of an hour on each side of the Falls giving passengers splendid view of one of the grandest waterefalls in the world. In travelling so great a distance one has splendid opportunities for reading human nature, and I enjoyed that part fully as much as any. have of it was sad [?] place pleasant, and some [?] quite so.
I would think you would be rather afraid to have sent a stately and noble [?] as that
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