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Remsen Sept 4, 1887

My loved ones

If you will pardon a pencil ("Mary Mold" is using the pen to write a letter to her lover.) I will send an outline of our doings to-day while Mrs. Thomas lays the table for tea. Mrs. Lewis is out in the flower garden; Anna is resting having just come in with me from a hens nest hunting in which we were quite successful finding a new nest in the big bard. Two hens were foolishly sitting each on a nest of six beautiful eggs, one of the unlucky ones we put in prison. to the other we gave a long trail of red as a trial, which failed of the desired effect for after picking a few crumbs

We shall look for a line every day and we will write you all would Sarah I am sure. lovingly your cousin Jennie