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conveyances here, sleighing is so rare and so little reckoned upon, that few take the trouble to procure sleighs, but pungs, sleds, sledges, rough boxes of unplaned boards put everything in short that earn be put upon runners are in requisition and every decent one is called a cutter. I have been washing a few handkerchiefs and collars this morning. Miss Woodbury has done her working to save expense though now she means to put it out; - Mrs. Allis our hostess, is poor but of unbounded ambition, takes boarders to get means to calculate and dress her children whom the means shall make a figure in the world: we are constantly reminded by all the economy of the household, that the project of our board is the great object Miss W. is very independent and speaks right out, if her rights are not attended to: she is a natural laugher, and finds a ludicrous side to most every thing. She is quite a talker and reminds me of Almeda in some respects. her takes and feelings are congenial with mine in a greater degree than is open to be found - we agree well in liking to spend leisure evenings in reading, rather than talking or much company and we agree well in the kind of reading: We have a volume of 'Christophers work.' (Prof Wilson) recreations a delightful book, perhaps I mentioned it in my last. I wish you could read it you would enjoy it so much it is full of fun and rich humour as well as beauty, sense and pathos: I dare say you could get it from the Library in Bangor: the same author you know, as Lights and Shadows of Scottish life. Sister Ann