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VII

I shall probably stay as long as the cholera will allow and then start for home for a holiday.

They say it will break out as soon as warm weather comes. I suppose I have written that about half a dozen times, but never mind that. I suppose I have also told you that they predict a dose of same for the states. 

Mr. White one of the M.F.U. boys has just come up here to live. They move here Sundays just the same as other days, they have no little prejudices of the religious kind. 

It makes it very pleasant to have three of us here. As they say "In [[strikethrough]] unions [[/strikethrough]] onions there is strength. We will make White do all the dirty work, such as asking for things when we dont know how to. We have been down town since dejeuner and have seen a lot of pictures at the Government school. They are what is called the Prize of Rome pictures that is the fellows compete every year and the fellow who gets it is allowed to study four years in Rome and is allowed so much for expences but he is obliged to send home one picture each year to show how he is progressing. The pictures we saw today were the pictures that were made for the competition, the [[strikethrough]] thse [[/strikethrough]] were the ones that took the first 2nd. and 3rd prizes. Then there were the prize pictures since 1620 or something like that; showing the progress in French art since that date.