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the kind attentions of my aunt & with her society & the many "studies" for my pencil which present themselves on all sides I could have passed a summer with ease at Bryneham Wood. The numerous amusing anecdotes of western life which my aunt has related to me with the peculiar zest which she possesses I shall long laugh over -- An old woman who had heard of the piano, desired to hear it played upon & on beholding the operation remarked "Well now I guess our July Ann might learn to do that, fur she's mighty handy with the knittin needles." On being told of paperhanging she remarked "I guess ye hangs em up in winter & takes em down in the summer" -- A young man who "did" the faces of the citizens with red & white earth in unclear calico drawing? the portraits of my aunt & the Doctor took one down & rapped it with all his might to discover the material