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I was there it is needless to say- although the cold rain beat ceaselessly on the vacant pavement - I was there in season and with fear and trembling was inspected by the loving parent- After breakfast and a short chat my visit was at an end I rather regreted leaving for my stay had been of the most agreable character despite the disagreablenes of the weather. My friend Nab? would have come over to Buffalo and seen mother had it not been so rainy. I bid my adieux and footed through mud and water to the depot the stage having gone- and nursed a pair of wet feet to B- where I happily arrived in the course of an hour I found a fire in the sleeping car office and made myself at home untill the arrival of the train from Avon upon which were mother and Charlie

and we were soon ensconsed in our section on the Chicago through car shortly after twelve m- we were away the recollections of my recent enjoyable sojourn at S comingling them selves with a missing trunk of which no clue had been gained ten minuits previous to our departure we soon boarded the baggage car and there the familiar end protruded its self from the Chicago pile. We dined at Toledo- and supped at Cleveland- the rainy cloudy weather continued during the entire trip and the scenery was highly miserable. I got off the cars at Panesville and walked the familiar platform which had seen me so lonesome but two years previous- The next morning at 9 we were in Chicago our despatch had not been received and therefore nobody was at the depot to meet us