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would do the same with me and he does but you know dear that I am not slow at being disagreeable so I don’t think he gets ahead of me much. He is not so good to travel with as Graves. I have all the work to do and he appropriates all the credit. He will ask me how to go to a certain place and when I tell him he will say "I know a d--- sight better" and when I prove it to him he will say "well isn't that what I said. Then he keeps saying that he doesn't think fellows who are studying art ought to get married and that makes me mad. Even if he does think so he might have the good sense to keep his mouth shut when he knows I that I am going to.
Don't you think so dear?

But after all Frank is a good fellow 

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much better than the average. I think Haynes is a better fellow to get along with. One of the fellows had some tobacco in his trunk when he came over and they made him pay about six dollars and he said he had a policeman following him for a week after he got in here.

Tell Minnie I am sorry she didn't kiss me good bye. I guess I will survive it though. Mother H. wrote that [Hub?] was going to enlarge his business; I hope he will make lots of money so we can get married even if I don't sell all I paint right away. What do you think of that dearest.

Oh! I nearly forgot. if you want to telegraph me just direct Tarbell, Gillig, Paris France and I will get it all right.

Love to mother and father Souther and all the children and heaps of fun my darling little future.
Ned.