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Thought of both of you at the time, when it was too late to send you anything you could get on the day. So I can only send you both my very best love, and your next birthday I hope to be near by and able to help make your birthday a nice one. I hope you wont cut yourself with your new knife. How fine Harry must be going to a School to learn to ride his new bicycle. Do you have lessons with Miss Geordie in the nursery - and does Cecil try to crawl up the stairs to make you [[?]]? What would you have thought of Venice, the city I have just left. Think of going about the streets in a boat. You know the city is in the sea, and the houses go straight down into the water, like this [[sketch]] The boats are called gondolas, and are shaped like this, something, only a great deal prettier. The man who rows always stands up and rows with one oar, and never tumbles over, and he can take the gondola through the narrowest streets without ever touching the walls. The people in the boat sit down in that little covered place in the middle of the gondola and lean back on cushions and were never so comfortable 

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