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are singing & the hens and I tapped a maple tree for Michele's special benefit.

Have been making a gate and cutting lumber for a fense [[fence]] with Mr. Rosenbaum &c &c. and as soon as the frost is out of the ground there will be post holes & plowing. 

But I shall be soon looking about for a place for my Summer work, and leave them all in the lurch, without compunction —— being a hartless [[heartless]] individual.

My aunt & I are finishing Les Miserables and I