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every day they were writing letters to you yesterday in the steam in the windows mary says tell you santa claus brought her a little red tin bucket with a lid and chip a little blue tin and john a harp my pen and ink as you will see are very poor so I will close for the present the mail leaves here to day and again on friday I will try to have a letter ready for Rebbeca Frost by friday if you see her give my respect tell her we are getting along well and often wish she was here in our circles I have been somewhat homesick sometimes here we have had [slick?] times in stauton the whole surface of the earth has been covered with ice nearly all the time since we came write immediately and give me all the news