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Shalersville Feb 11, 1858 Dear Cousins I have neglected writing to you so long, that I almost persuaded myself to might that that I had written. Ma in her last letter said she has just heard from you and had given up expecting a visit from you I am sorry, for I want you to get acquainted with our folks it would seem as if we were better acquainted- Do you not get lonesome sometime. I presume Me has told you I am teaching I have only a small school fourteen scholars Some of them are large and some small. It is my first experience in this line and expect it will do me much good mentaly and morally I find that it already makes me more watchful