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[[start page]] [[underline]]March[[/underline]] [[underline]]1868[[/underline]] simple sweet & touching. It almost made me cry. The new clergyman answers questions very well. Went home with Sallie H. after the lesson was over. Annie very busy with marriage preparations. 20th Friday. A most dismal day for our small party. The snow falling fast we did not expect any body would brave the storm but Marion [[Hussey?]] & Minnie Fowler came and some time after Alfred and Mr. Curtis followed by Dr. Otis. Mr. Curtis entertained us with a song. A decidedly new version of the story of Washington & the apple tree. In wh. it was asserted It is better to tell ten thousand lies than cut one apple tree. Carry & Minnie gave us a charade. Inspector In which Mr. Curtis made [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underline]]March[[/underline]] [[underline]]1868[[/underline]] a most astonishing spectre of himself. We finished up the evening with [[underline]]Count Papolini[[/underline]]. Gen. Hunter came early for the girls & seemed to enjoy the [[?]]. 22nd Sunday. Carry & I off for school before the rest of the family were up. A very pleasant hour with my dear little girls. If I thought I did them as much good as they do me I should be satisfied. May the great Teacher of All teach me how to teach them. I made a mistake about Ecce Homo. I took the book up again this afternoon. The bitterness of feeling ascribed to our Lord in his dying hours is the just & proper indignation of a pure & holy nature against wrong. The author is rather unfortunate & misleading just there no [[?]] are of shame [[underline]]"resentment"[[/underline]] Read some of it to Father [[end page]]