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around here, these days ∙ that I thought I must take this opportunity.  

You know I expected to be home by this time- but I do is too exciting! - I have so much more to do - that I had to stay another month. Did I tell you that they wanted me to have a little exhibition before I left?  Well I didn't have the nerve to do that thing - so the [[?]] took it in their own  hands - and - last Thursday - put all my little sketches (almost twenty water colors and eight or ten oils) up in a little green room - along a little ledge - and sold all but three of the water color sketches - two oils at $5 each - well, in all, $31 worth. Also one of my big water colors which I [[?]] [[?]] doing - for $30. and took loads of orders