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her here. We expect Elisabeth home next week and can hardly wait to see her. The Principal of the Academy and the pastor of the church there both speak very highly of her and her work. She has almost too much to do tho having thirty-two private pupils, and extra work besides. She has been drilling the? children for a Christmas cantata lately. They had a very sudden and radical change in temperature there last week. The mercury dropping forty degrees on some nights? This was when she took her cold. Next Friday night we serve an oyster supper for the members of the Boys Club here and the Parsonage. It is something of an undertaking as there are thirty boys in the club, but we hope all will go off well. Lizzie has not been very strong this fall. I have written her urging her to come and spend the winter with me, but fear she will not be willing to leave her home. It is so hard for her to get along alone there in the winter time. John is teaching as usual and seems to