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bunch of flowers, and I had a much larger - not a handfull, but an armfull by the time I reached home. Mr. & Mrs. Lessenden and Bessie were going for a little while to his father's not far off. At? the afternoon Mr. S. comes to Sunday school, of which he is the Supt., in our school house. Bessie is too small (2 1/2 yrs old) to go and her mamma had not been yet this summer. Last summer she used to go and lead the singing and leave Bessie with one of her aunties or grandma. Mrs. S. is a Marcia - almost -, if not-quite as sweet as our N. Y. cousin M. 29th 6-45a.m. Have just finished breakfast. The men had theirs first - I alone, and John is alone now. He had pancakes. He is making graham pudding. Mary is dressing. She did not sleep well last night or the night before - the war of the elements affects her nerves! It is cooler this a. m. and it only drizzles but yesterday it poured - right against our east door, and the first thing we noticed