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She seems too, to have the right idea about Dot's training. I think you are very sensible to want to have her trained properly and not spoil her. It really is an unkindness to the child though most doting parents do not realize it. Dot must be a darling and I wish we lived where we could see her often.  I hope she is never slapped. I dont believe in it at all nor scoldings do you?  Egbert and I are both very fond of children and we get along with them fine though we expect them to mind us.  The children in the Arbor Vitae St neighbor hood all came to us & told us they didn't want us to move away and that they were coming to see us.  It quite touched our hearts.

While we were starting in to fix up that place (and by the way we have it [[?]] now for all cash) and while every thing was in a mess of dirt and disorder, we let the children hammer & whack away & yell