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besides they require constant supervision, and though they (are supposed to) do the [[strikethrough]] do the [[/strikethrough]] dirty work, the saving in time is not so great after all. 

And to me their presence takes away much of the home likeness of a home. Still one can try. A childhood in a nest in the east and a youth more on the frontier, at least a taste of [[strikethrough]] taste of [[/strikethrough]] the West and larger things [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] was among my dreams, indeed. 

And [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] daughters who would give their brothers no cause to think, as you did at the batteries, that they could not fire canon as well as a man. But I suppose this is unnatural and I think I can appreciate altogether different types - even the delicate (pink and yellow?) flower variety. 

I am weary and will stop here. See No 2.