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morning with Mrs. Bailey to see them, and I declare such great long rows of currants peaches cherries plums respberries, strawberries grapes, pease and everything else most ready to be transplanted it made me ache to pull eery one of 'em great apple trees and all, up by the roots and send them all down to your house. I want you should have just such a nice garden, and you might have had by this time if they had taken any kind of care of it. Its a shame is'nt it! I suppose Mr. Bailey is raising a great deal of his fruit and vegatables for market in Chicago. He says he thinks 'Twill be more profitable than raising grain, and he thinks some of turning his whole farm into a garden and orchard You know I like every-thing that grows so I shall enjoy the garden the garden any how and I shall make the most of all other sources of enjoyment - Miss Jennie Bailey has an excellent piano and she plays and sings a great deal and very well. This I enjoy of course and she has kindly offered me the free use of her piano whenever I wish to practice and to assist me to, if I wish. I intend to avail myself of the opportunity what time I can spare, Then they have several horses and they ride horse back a great deal. I've rode once. Jennie & Mary Murray rode this morning. They ride very often and go like the wind on colts or any thing else - I had to have an old stump tailed madam, the mother of a dozen or two colts, saddled for me 'cause I'm inexperienced you know, and I could'nt fall off her because she was so broad in the flanks. I've had two or three buggy rides also, last Sabbath I went with Mr. Bailey, son and daughter about 10 or 12 miles to attend a meeting but was to late for the services - but the ride was very pleasant. The Sabbath before Jennie and William Bailey Mary Murray and I went to Blue Island to church These are the pleasanter parts, omit the opposites, - Mr. Rexfords folks started for California last Monday - I have heard some things since I came here of them that disgust me. But perhaps 'tis not true. I have met a branch of the Rexfords since I came back - Mrs - Stephen Rexford who was Miss Barber of Townsend ??-daughter of Mr. Barber who adopted Mr. Gleason of La Porte. She is also acquaint