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School House The Grove June 8th 1857
Dear Bob.
I wonder what you were doing with yourself all day, sunday we had company all day. The folks from the Folly were here, and broght with them an old gentelman from Minnesota, one of Uncle Hirams chess friends. I had to cut "lots" of bouquets.
Yesterday was the first real warm summer day that we have had, and it is warm enough to day. we had a fine thundershower last night, and we need it very much. The grass on the new lawn is coming up nicely. Our tulips are already beginning to fade. But they have been splended. The Lilacs are beautiful and so fragrant. those hedges out in the
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new apple orchard are very fine. There are great many pretty wild flowers now. especially the violets. Charlie and I were talking about you last night, and we geussed that you would think things looked changed a little since you went away.
We all went fishing the other night, but did not get may fish. I got some lovely crabapple flowers, that were worth going "clear down to the river" for.
I do not get any birds to skin - I am sorry but, we shall expect Uncle Flint and Major home tomorrow, and then I shall hope to get some.
We don't get any snakes. and although I carry a bugging bottel myself and [illegible] all the rest to, we do not seem to get many bugs. I think they all have got frozen up.
Charlie Bragdon and his wife
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were out one day last week.
There is the greatest quantity of little bugs in the our school, and they are very noisy little boys too. There is about six babys that go to school. so you can emajion we have a quiet time of it.
We have not heard from Ada Chapmon since she was out early this spring. Uncle Lonz - is very bad this spring, he suffers a great deal. Our Aunt Dele worries herself a great deal about them. Aunt Dele work out just as much as ever this summer - she is making garden - and cleaning yards, and planting beets and carrets, all the time, I hope she will get finished before a great while.
Aunt Carrie and Uncle Will are having great times, with Mr Ballad and his wife it seems to me that they ought to have found
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R by this time that they are not the kind of people to have tenants.
All the folks send love Sister Alice
Mr Robt Kennicott