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are free from that damned timidity which aloys [[alays]] such pleasures for me & makes me a bad rider &c.

There is some compensation in the exiliration [[exhilaration]] one experiences in doing a thing in spite of fear but, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] it costs so dear I hope our children (for I trust they may be ours for all you have said) will be naturally bolder than I. I inherited my cowardice from both parents.

Wheelock wrote me that she is riding a small stallion bareback at Indian Hill Bedford N.Y.
milking cows &.c Is very homesick for us and the good times at Woodstock

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