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Mr. Asa Walker is now gone to Wilton, with his ? started yesterday morning, will be back Friday or Saturday, Mrs. Walker is I should think in much better health than when I left here, and does the work while Mr. W and his sister are gone. James is going to Mass., after 'Lection, he says Mr. Walker has got two new young pigs which he intends to keep through the winter. The other pigs are great hogs. I find that I am rather behind the rest in some things, they have a week start of me. There is a class beginning Comstocks Philosophy, and I must begin with them although I lack time for it. There are 11 new scholars this term besides of who left at the beginning of summer, returned. There is a class, many of the older boys and those who have studied algebra going to go through the new Leonards Arithmetick, lately published, to refresh their memories etc. It is very oppressively warm to lay, especially in a schoolhouse; James says I shall soon lose the flesh I have gained, studying, this weather. It comes very hard to wear a thick warm coat all day, or a stick either. I left behind as you will perceive my umbrella, shoes, inkbottle, they can be sent with the pantaloons. I don't know but it would be best if I had that white jacket. I rather think that that old wooden frock coat, which I wore some, when I first went home, (hanging upstairs) might be fixed by merely cutting off a few inches, of the bottom, putting on buttons etc, so that I could wear it to school considerable this fall. At least digging potatoes etc. It would save my other, (of which there is need/, and also, my p.pants much more than a short jacket.