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in vacations that it hardly seems like one, having so much more time and freedom to think, I feel an uneasy sensation a wanting of something an yearning after home-- scenes and home friends. I spend nearly half of every day with a young lady reviewing her studies preparing to enter at South Hadley this fall-- young ladies here must of course go east to complete their education, this confines me considerable I have had however onepleasant excursion which I must describe to you. One of the teachers who came with me last fall, a fine young lady from Fitchburg Mass. is located at Wawatosa five miles west of Milwaukee, She came and spent a few days with me then I returned home with her. The trip on the lake was most delightful we started about three oclock on the Niagara one of the floating palaces ' of the west'; arrived at [M.?] at 5 25 miles, expected a man to carry us to Wawatosa but were disappointed he having heard the boat was not expected should have had to pass the night at hotel, had not an old neighbour of my friends from Mass. chanced to come to the same house he offered to carry us and accordingly a handsome carriage was out the door at sunset and we had a fine moonlight ride of five miles on a plank road by the side of Menominee river. The gentleman would receive no pay though it must have been a dollar or two expense; he had traveled much in the west for several years and such acts of generous politeness though rather uncommon I imagine, in the massive valley of old Mass. are quite characteristic of the open liberality of Western character.