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trying to find the coolest spot. But afternoon I was impressed into a horseback ride with Mr. Bartlett of whom I have spoken before, (and who strange to say was a warm personal friend of John Harvey, up in Waupacca Co) a Mrs. Nolan, an English lady who has lived several years in Australia, at Melbourne and vicinity, and a Miss Sopris, one of the teachers in the public school. a young lady who has a sister who hopes some day to be the daughter in law of Mr. Haddock, who is in the Com. Genls office at Washington - while she herself -rather expects to be the wife of the Mr. Cushman that Sayers wrote to me about. He rode about thirteen miles after three o clock and found it hot enough - Before tea which we took at the house of a friend. Bartlett and myself took a delicious bath in Bear Creek in water not two feet deep - but very swift and at sundown started back. The Twilight lasted an hour and a quarter, and just as that gave way to night, the spot where