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dull sitting in the house alone. I am getting quite hardened to the above racket. Dont know how it will work in Duchland but in old England I get along very well. If I was alone with you I should get along better. 

What do you think dear? I went down to the Gaiety Th. the other eve and saw a first rate burlesque on Hamlet, called Very little Hamlet. Miss Farren played H. She was first rate. 

They say she is 45 or more and has 3 or 4 children, one of them as old as I am; but she dances and sings as lively as if  she were 18. She has a stunning figure, tall and slight but not a bit thin. I dont see how she dances as she does. People told me how wonderfull she was but I thought 

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was one of their British freaks. I expected to see some fat old dowager waddling about the stage in short cloths but I was agreeably surprised. Her face is anything but pretty but her figure is so nice that you forget her face. To tell the truth I never get near enough to see the faces of the actors. It costs too much. But art students cant stand more than 50 cts. in these times of woe. 

Hav'nt seen a funny thing since I have been in this town unless you call the pictures funny. They are funny enough but not amusing.

The other night when we were coming home from the Gaiety we saw a little boy, but  with a couple of boxes of matches in his hand lying at the front of some door steps, barefooted and ragged sleeping in the rain, 

Transcription Notes:
.Ellen "Nellie" Farren (16 April 1848 – 29 April 1904) was an English actress and singer best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in musical burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre.