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dibut upon an incoming train. and we spent a social evening. The following morning Mother and I took Charlie out to Mt. Hope and in the P.M. I called on Mr. Churchill and had the pleasure of going through his large boot and shoe factory later that afternoon we took the cars for Avon. The valley was as pleasant as ever and I was quite at home. My time was spent in walking- over dosing the water, and reading. There were very few people there indeed and no young ladies unless it was "Lucille" in whose society I was almost constantly and became greatly enamored. I left on the morning of Thursday intending to meet Charlie and Mother the day following at Buffalo in the mene time where was I? Going up to Rochester spending an hour in a book store dining at Congress and buying a ticket for-- Lockport loveable spot- with what feelings of trepidation did I step off from the cars and board the Judson house stage- how my heart palpatated against my satchel which was artistically poised on my knees- when a pheaton with a pretty young lady dashed by-  At last the rough and rockey way was passed over and we stopped I soon immersed in the solitude of my chamber and sat down to codgitate over a slight stomach ache and in my Store clothes which had been donned for the unusual festivity of the occasion. I looked out of my window a dreary expanse of dull leaden sky hung over the town through whose streets a cold searching September wind swept drearily. I was transported in imagination to the lonesome home sick days of my boarding school life. I made a slight toilette and enquired the direction of Mr. Marks Residence

Transcription Notes:
A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. cogitate Cogitate definition is - to ponder or meditate on usually intently. mene - mean