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made a bad play. The result was much teasing, the final realization that I spun rather too fast to allow my skirts to remain down as far as propriety dictates, & that Isabel Farish, one of the three dear friends who left together, now calls me either "Dam, Dammy or Damnation". The Bantam was Mr. Hosford, also one of the three. As you know, I can draw about as well as a cat, but I have made a chef-d'oeuvre for this piece of carving & I shall carry it out as soon as the wood arrives.

And here is a much more alarming bit of information for you: I am learning how to sew! After I realized that unless I