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that hardy and uncomplaining as she has been she could spend several satisfactory years with us here before closing her eyes on the rings of time if those nerves whose business it is to see after feet and legs would only get back on their job. Hell, bless her dear heart! I am glad that I met with her on lifes' highway even though it was near the end of the road for both of us. I am sure she has always played her part well, and will leave the earth with a strong credit account in her favor. How I'd love to act on your suggestion and run in and visit you in your mountain loveliness. In the miserable prospect before the rains came I often wondered if it were possible to nail the house up and run away from this heat and dirt and find a shack somewhere among the mountains where the earth was green and water was cool and running. But I have put the thought by now that the heavy rains are on. The home must be put in shape and painted before things ruin in dampness and exposure. Maksy or Mabry? Carleton was out one afternoon this week with a bunch of boys and girls for a bathing party. He brought the girls in to change into their bathing suits before going to lake. When I saw what was taken off and what was put on I could but say to myself "Why the foolishness of such formalities as going behind walls to change clothes when there are no clothes!" They are only a joke." I was much reminded of "The Emperors New Clothes" by Hans Andersen - you've read it-have you not? If not, there is something rich in store for you. A few years ago when bathing beach seasons were all the rage this smut appeared in Digest: A certain young man committed suicide and left behind a note of explanation, "Life is no longer worth living - I have seen everything there is." He was bathing censor at fashionable beach during Summer that is what I thought when those girls walked out just as good or better than naked and climbed in with a car load of boys to go to Lake not even sandals on their pretty baby feet right in the face of all Israel and The Sun" - to be biblical about it. Goodnight - tell