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good news to hear Lucy and the others are doing so well We get very good letters from Lucy now they don't sound so homesick as they used to. Ed has a big team they are beautiful horses at least we think so they are both black and so big and high. We are so proud of them, Ed. takes as much care of them as I do of the babies He has done a great deal of work with them already. We have decided to take our land in the south of the Reserve joining Bancroft. We have taken the children's land and ours in a body, The land is fractional twenty seven rd., on the

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south line. We would like to take the twenty seven rd. with our claim, can we hold it? Please tells us, if we can't hold it we would like to buy according to the bill. The land is very valuable. Ed, is going to build a little house on our land very soon so we can live in it. We are going to be right in settlement among the whites. My land is half a mile west of Bancroft, the children's lie on the east joining Bancroft. Ed has been going to Bancroft a great deal he has to stay over night and I take care of things at home, Carroll trots