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"From One Fisherman to another" Feb. 13 '03 pencil, in another hand

Dear Doctor.

I wish you could have been here last week, we certainly would have had a fine time. Father and Mother went down to Philadelphia and left me alone with a Swede girl. The folks were gone nearly two weeks and I was just beginning to think I was a fine house keeper when mother came home and began to talk about how dirty everything was.

They spent two or three days with George went to Washington and Pittsburg and had a fine trip.

Say do you know it is'nt very long before the fishing will be good at Okoboji? You must be ready to go about the 20th of May. We can have a swell time up there all by ourselves The folks are going to let us go up there for the first two weeks all by ourselves. Do you know how to cook anything? If you don't you had better learn for I am not much of a cook.

I am getting along fine in school, we are just ready for our examinations,