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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
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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