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tonight which I will do. When I was nearly done my breakfast the restaurant man himself fetched me a piece of cold mutton. The servant assured me there was not a bit in the house. She did it for the good of my soul. Most people think they will go to hell if they eat meat on good friday & others that dont believe in it at all never eat it before & dont like to begin & would rather take a dose of castor oil than a nice piece of beef. Of all religions the christian is the most intolerant & inconsistent & no one without living here can know what a frightful war it wages against everything that is good. Your last letter told me about Daddy's & Sheely's day. You ought to have known better than to go out on either of them. I am glad you treated them well but be sure you dont admire him for anything but his good heart & [[strikeout]] negative [[/strikeout]]] want of vices for he is very very silly. I am not surprised that Haty plays better than Amy for she has a good teacher & being naturally above the level never [[strikeout]] wi [[/strikeout]] debased herself by frequenting what is called society. [[Shinn?]] signs himself enfant perdu in his letters which he writes for the bulletin & makes french in [[end page]] [[start page]] them & although he never connects more then two of the foreign words together he somehow still manages to get them wrong. I wonder what percent the sprinkling of such trash [[strikeout]]in a letter enhanc [[/strikeout]] enhances the money value of newspaper correspondent. If a Frenchman put foreign words in his writing I am sure there is not a paper in Paris would print his stuff even for nothing. I suppose your skating is now wound up. Grease your skates before you put them away & maybe it wouldnt be a bad notion to sharpen them & not wait till the skating again. You & Maggie ought to go to Jansens & learn to swim this summer. He warms the water the first of May I think. You boat so much that you ought to know how to swim. If you swim well maybe Poppy will take you sailing once to show you how nice that is for it is much better than rowing. Mr Lenvir has just sent me an invitation to come to his house & dine with him Wednesday next so I will write him a note that I am coming & put that & this in the post office together. Do you ever see Johnny or Lidie Leary