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is better now. Think she will get well. Look ye here! "Sposin" Uncle Theoph. should be Agent in this District, had'nt I better just for the fun of it, apply for the school: I must have a space for Ann to fill; good bye. Sister Lucy H. Metcalf

                     Brother Jo if you hear any thing respecting my keeping school up there I went you should at once let me know it, if you call at Mr. Parker's you will hear. - I want to send word to Brownville whether I will go there, I have received letters from Yerusha Williams, Mrs. Pomroy, Mrs. P. and Miss Quincy. I have answered Mr. P's in phonography partly, and wrote a letter to Mary Barnes one page of which was in French. Phonography is very pretty. Sunday Uncle Henry's going to Dover tomorrow and so I will finish up what we want to say: We received your epistle Frid. eve also a letter from M. Stevens Esq. wishing me to let him know whether I had engaged a school, in case they should want me, their agent not chosen yet etc. I wish to send word to him through you that I am not now engaged, have been spoken to from Brownville, can have 2,00 per week, or in this town either I presume, rather an easier school but not so long. Tell Mr. Parker also that I should prefer that school on account of being longer employed and commencing earlier, but do'nt want to engage fully under a week or two - I don't know as they will want me yet - If I take it I should like to begin it early in May. As to your Memotechony I have forgotten how to spell it, - I can enlighten upon the science, as Parsons from whom I suppose Thurston learned it, - was at Bangor last fall gave a course of lessons at $3,00 a pupil, and instructed Mr. Pomroy gratis; it is founded upon the sentence "Satan may relish coffee pie,' those consonants in their order standing for the 9 digits beginning with t; se, te, ne, me, re, le, she, ke, fe, pe: so is the cipher there are combined with vowels in any way you please, and make words that stand for dares, thus Discovery of America 1492