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take her: J then turned to Susan and asked her if she was sensible, she had done wrong and derserve of humiliation felt sorry for it, she said she did not know, I then told her she might go home for I should not receive her without suitable submission, she came back again before long humble enough and I punished her and let her take her seat; I have 77 scholars in all, 67 present yesterday; begin to feel anxious and concerned about examinations which I fear will not go off well, - I have had pleasant weather and walking almost all winter, two days it has rained so violently that I have stayed at home and h ad the day to myself; - I am working a small collar chippy evening, am sorry about the ruffle as I have wanted it to wear positively it is not among my things: so it must be there, probably in the top drawer; - Abby Hill took her books, away about a fortnight since to attend Mr. Converse's school the scholar say; she said nothing to me about it. I do not know for what reason, but probably because of the distance: I have called there once since Mrs. Hill came; I believe she expect to return soon and I will find out and write by her:-I wish I had plenty of money - a large store of dry good is to be sold off at auction commencing to day they will without doubt go low because of the scarcity of money: I wish very much that you could have a black alpine or Afhansa dress, the most suitable and useful of all others for you. I want to get some stout cheap calico for you and I a loose dress like Lucy's and I wish to get for myself a nice French calico, and such a one would not come amiss to Lucy I presume - cotton cloth for sheets will probably go low, but I have no prospect of getting any money before those things are sold - Tell Isaac that Fredric Bartlett is boarding a week with us on business from Holborn where he has a clerkship under (unclear) of the offices of army he is desking spring who stays out till one or two o clock every night with his lady-love his brother who (unclear) the oration at the juvenile celebration the fourth of July an appointment (unclear) navy and has gone to the Mediterranean-