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As We are expecting a five gallon can of honey from Mr. Smith this week-
Don't you wish you were here? You remember Mr. Smith the bee man don't you Sidney. He thinks you are the bravest young man he ever met.
 
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The Washington monument as far as it was then completed. You know it was left in an unfinished condition for years and they had just started on it again when a friend and I were the first women to make the ascent at least so they told us. At that time there was no way of reaching the top except by climbing up stairs which were not unclosed at the back. It makes me shudder now to think of it. That must have been about 1884 or 5