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Dear Eddie,

  Your friend William E Jones has invited me to write a little to you in his letter and I am very glad to do it. He is leaning on the table close by eating molasses candy and if you were here you could go to the little pantry in the hall and help yourself. How do you get along any way, you little rogue? I would really like to get hold of you tonight and give you a good shaking or count your ribs or something. By the way how many ribs have you got? you never would keep still so I could count them, ask Anna to try. Perhaps now you have got to be a city chap you can keep still. Bill forgot to tell you the news in his letter. He wants me to say that he went to the