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[[preprinted]] FEBRUARY, THURSDAY 5. 1874. [[/preprinted]]
Last night I went to the Oglesbys again they had the babes in the woods the way they did was as follows they had a shawl over the mantle and a bolster on the floor and have two children get behind the shawl and have there knees blacked to look like babys faces.
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[[preprinted]] FEBRUARY, FRIDAY 6. 1874. [[/preprinted]]
Tonight I am staying home but I dont know as I have any reason not to be at home. We have had [[underlined]] sad sad [[/underlined]] news tonight a telagraph grandma is very low
We have a letter from Collie to but that is not bad news.
Papa cannot go home tonight because of the snow storm. Oh my have I forgotten to say that I have got my canary and its the dearest little thing ever lived I think