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I will be all right to go back. I think I said in my last I was going to learn to draw if it took a l__. well never mind I am going to do it. Today as I was going to the studio I saw lots of the market people coming home up the hill with their carts. Some of them were very amusing. The first one I noticed was one drawn by two men and his dogs: something like this [[image 1]] 

The second one was a covered cart with a big fat woman in side drawn by a little bit of a donkey about two feet high. [[image 2]] The man was walking by the side of the cart I left off the cover to the wagon and the fat woman for want of room, but she [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] would have come up to the hub of the wheel in the cart above. One is all the time seeing things like these here if you only have time to make notes of them. One

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thing that always struck me as being peculiarly characteristic of the french people is the way in which the women hold up their garments in crossing the street. (Dont be shocked.) but it is truely apalling. In the first place they always wear their under skirts about them a few inches [[strikethrough]] shorter [[/strikethrough]] above the tops of their boots. And when they cross the streets it looks as if they grabbed their cloths for the express purpose of showing their stockings. I am sorry to state that it is usually a case of (invisible support) so no one is injured. I think this little sketch I have made below here is perfectly lovely and you must have it framed. Tell me what you think of it darling. It represents the subject above mentioned. [[image 3]] Tell me darling if you dont like it, but they look so funny I could'nt help mentioning it. Dear love you dont know how many times a day I stop and think of you and every night I think 

Transcription Notes:
image 1 - sketch of 2 dogs pulling a cart with 2 men pushing cart image 2 - sketch of donkey pulling cart with man walking beside cart image 3 - sketch of woman wearing tall hat and carrying an umbrella holding her long skirt above her boots