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in business for his father however and will keep watch of this. I distinctly told Kenyon that I did not want to get into a law suit, which he fully understands but he thinks that by our earnest and proper representation the Council may be made to see the justice of modifying the assessment and so that rests for a week or ten days. Sara has gone to the funeral of Mollie Delavergne who died suddently on Sunday.- Yesterday when I went into Dempseys who should I see sitting there but "Jim Robinson" who I thought was in his grave. There was a James Robinson died on March 26" and I was assured he was the man, but "Jim denied that he was dead or ever had been. Today I received the announcement of the wedding of E.A. Abbey, the artist. Sara and I have concluded to offer this house furnished, to those people whom Mrs. Schreiber spoke of for three months for $1000. We think we may be blamed if we do not make an effort to let it when there is an opportunity. I have spoken to Girard about it and he thinks that a reasonable price as does Mary Vaux to whom I spoke about it when we thought Young might want it. 

Thursday Apl. 24" 1890. We have had a very refreshing, gentle spring rain today which will be very advantageous to our garden. Tom has the garden all spaded now and pretty well ploughed, except corn, pumpkins &c. Today he put up a trellis and planted Lima beans. We have had radishes twice from our little hot bed. I greatly enjoy the garden and shall miss it when the time comes that we have to move. Sara went to see Mrs. Schryver today and told her that we would rent this house for three months furnished, with the garden planted and a man to take care of it, for $1000. She seemed to think it would be a larger house than they would want and more than they would care to pay and thought that my house would be what they would want. We talked of that and came to the conclusion we would have to buy so much to furnish it and spend so much to put it in decent order that it would not pay- I dont want to do any thing to the house until I use it myself as our stay here is so very uncertain. It does not seem wise to spend any money here or on my place until we know what we are to do. - Girard had an interview with Alderman Miller today about our assessment on Holmes St. He affects to believe it is a just assessment and asked Girard what he would take for property there and he answered ten dollars a foot. He said he would buy at that price and he said, you can have it. He knew he would not take it. Girard met Hauck the brewer soon after and he spoke about that property. Girard said I have just sold a lot. He was surprised and asked, at what price? He replied ten dollars a foot. I will give you twenty he said. All right Girard replied, it is yours. How much do you want. He said a hundred feet South from O'Reillys property. He said it could not join on O'Reilly as we had reserved 10 ft right of way there &c,. I am inclined to think this is a plan to get us to fix a price on our property so as to oppose us in any attempted reduction of our assessment, but Girard thinks Hauck wants to buy there and I told him to sell the whole (about 290) ft. for $6000 and to take less if he could not get that. He says they paid 22 dollars a foot for what they have there. Little Girard and Charlie are trying to have a garden over at their house but they have no tools to work with - an old broken spade and a borrowed hoe. I tried to buy them a spade today but they had none at the hardware store. They ought to be encouraged in such work.

Friday Apr. 25" It was cold and rainy, with north wind this morning but cleared in the afternoon and was fine but cool. The landscape is beautiful and the blossoms and bursting buds lend a strange delicacy to it. I am doing nothing to secure any of these beautiful effects. Girard told me today Etting Anderson had made some effort to buy the Crane place but that Henry refuses to leave saying they were promised they were to stay there during his mothers life time. She is ignorant of their condition and I dare say he feels it would kill her to leave there. Girard told him he had better come and buy our place and he told he would sell the house and three lots for $10.000. I think he will prefer the Cranes place as it would be very convenient for him but I wish he would buy this and we could go to my little house, for I have given up the idea of Sara and me trying to keep this place - Tom is at work this afternoon on McEntee Hill way. We had Girards children over here this forenoon, Charlie, Florence 

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