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about ten oclock, the clouds broke up and the sun came out to melt the snow at intervals. To night there is not a star out perhaps tomorrow we will have more snow, altogether to my liking, wish you were here even after knowing how it is liable to affect you. I want to kiss and put my arms around you very much, hope I can have a chance or two when I see you.

[[strikethrough]] Will be [[/strikethrough]] Will be glad to get away from here for a couple of days the killing of pigs is getting on my nerves, nothing but shriekings all day, pigs everywhere, the other night I almost ran into the gallows rigged up for our goodly washer womans pigs, in summer to have gotten rid of sweet scented friends would have been a blessing to us