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To be such a French scholar you can read partly to your self. At any rate Mama and Aunt Eliza can help you - and I am sure you know the stories already - You will have ever so many other nice things on your birthday and this is only to remind you that your far off Auntie thought of this day and would like to give you 800 kisses instead of 8. 

Last year you had a party and all the [[Jebbigns?]] and Wilsons and [[Mc Ilvaines?]] came and I played with you and it seems like more than a year to me be-

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-cause I am so far away. Perhaps you will like to know that I bought your belt in the market of a man who had a sort of booth out on the Place, which is a large open square. And I bargained with him until he gave it to me for five cents less than he asked at first- You hardly ever pay the price that is first asked for anything here when you get it in market. You ask the price and  they [[?]] some amount and then you say - "Oh, voyons c'est trop!" and then they say "Oh, mais non Madame!" as if they were very much surprised and you shrug your shoulders