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2 pairs I induced her to wear a pair of my heavy "Boyville" stockings. Her parents, friends of the Maxwells, asked them to take her for six months. She would give them no peace and they think six months will cure her desire to be a missionary. She is to return to Bennett to prepare herself to teach the Indians. I quite fell in love with the girl. Brasil is going to start moving if Ligia is a sample of the young Brasilian girl. But I surmise that the fact that her name is [[underlined]] Wagner [[/underlined]]

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has much to do with her independence and venturesomeness, though her father is Brasilian born. - This is a digression, but the girl was as interesting to me as were the birds and deer I saw. - I wanted to return to Campo Grande [[strikethrough]] Thursday [[/strikethrough]] Friday - start to, I mean, and had passage in an auto that was "probably" to leave Friday, if not certainly Saturday. (It didn't leave Fri nor Saturday, but Sunday.) Friday, after waiting all morning (drying plants and washing my clothes) for another auto to take us to the Indian