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now when it seems very desirable that she should have better advantages, than will fall to her lot in Milo, and I do'nt feel satisfied with her taking that Hobbs school,-out of the world: but do'nt know but it is best; one of the Hill girls wants the corner school, and they managed in their own underhand way to secure it, though they knew Lucy had first applied: Charles spoke to Mr. Frost, (he, the agent was absent) the Hills knew he had, yet they applied to him the moment he returned, professing all the while to Lucy, that they did not want it. it is not at all strange that Naomi wanted the school and she was well if not better entitled to it than Lucy, but their deceitful, tricky way of managing puts me out of patience. If Almeda had a different turn of character, with her abilities, she might perhaps do well to take a boarding house here, if she could turn property there into money,- Joseph & I am likely to be stationary here, and perhaps Eliab, and with 4 or 5 ot. boarders, she might support and educate her children well, but it is in vain to think of it, for her. Mrs. Chase has most kindly sent her an invitation to go to Boston with her children, and spent the next winter with her. I judge, from hints dropped in late letters, that there is some serious prospect, of our homestead coming under the rule of 'Albinas,' at some period, thether distant or near I ca'nt pretend to determine; such an event ought not certainly to be dreaded, yet it will be a great change of Mother, and Lucy, if there, as well as to the parties immediately concerned: We have, as a family, glided on for a long time, with one exception- without material change, but as our journey progresses, we must prepare to pass through, each for himself, his own chequered portion:- I have filled my sheet and in looking it over, it seems to me with