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on bread & water; then I should not be "longing for the flesh-pots of Egypt"!  I fear the quotation is lost on you.

Would it not be well to tell your mother & the rest that there may be a grandchild in the case & this is a principal reason why I wish they might learn to speak English or else hold to German? -- That is, in case they would like to have the young one with them at all.  

I should be glad of it has something of your mother's physique.  She struck me as a fine type of peasant woman & it was a pleasure to see her strong