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should see how humbly and Charlie Swine-fooly he becomes when his beloved old long-nosed "Oakes" appears!

Ma has been telling about your gold and silver beetles, and the neighbors have got it, much to her scandalization, that those beetles are worth a $1000 apiece. She can't help chuckling as she says she hopes that you'll be rich with a half a dozen of them at that rate.

I was at the Bethany Union all the afternoon doing some typing for Lena who has just had an awful row with Miss Leadbetter again.

Yesterday I rode in with your old namesake, Annie Fay. She asked all about you, interestedly. She said her brother Fred is on the Rhine keeping watch there, and she brought forth a gift he had sent her,- a German iron-cross, all silver cornered, and on a ribbon.

I have certainly struck the rainy season up north here, and cold - boo - I carry a heated brick to bed every night.
 
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I miss you exceedingly in that respect as all other ways.

Saturday afternoon if it is pleasant, Lena, Elizabeth, June, and I are going about the Arboretum sniffing lilacs and hunting bugs. My leg is healing slowly, and I get around all right now. 

Ralph hit his hand again, and pus has begun to form, but he went right to the doctor. I suggested to your mother that he have a urine analysis, you know often times excess of sugar causes these sores. And your mother was very prompt indeed in saying what "rich food" Maud was in the habit of dealing out, even adding that she didnt believe that he ought to have so much boiled ham. She began inquiring into your diet, - if you ate pork, etc. And I told her how you used to bring home chops, never knowing what kind they were till you had them cooked, which made her laugh. 

Ma has even got the "bug" fever - she brought in a brown june bug today and put it in the cyanide bottle.
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This is a four-page letter. First and last pages are on Page 29's image, before this one. This image, Page 30, shows pages two and three. Page two of the letter is on the right, and it continues onto page three, which is on the left here. Page three continues at the top of the left side on Page 29's image (actually the fourth page of the letter) Confusing, right.