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stiff old Scotchman is not much in favor of having boarders but the girls 'put in' and his wife too and he consented which I am told is a great compliment to me arguing that he has taken a fancy to me. I like to board here because I feel so much at home, can do as I please, throw off all restraint, sit with the family, or have a chamber ? to be alone in, have no scholars to watch me or parents either, quite different from the surveillance I was under at Racine. Mr. Rumsey says, when it is stormy or bad walking he has a 'boy and a horse,' they are real good sort of folks, - the older man with his nephew has just purchased a dock for forwarding business, for eight thousand dolls. two thousand to pay down. - the younger bought a farm a year ago for 3000. - the two railroads from Erie to Buffalo and Erie to New York cut it in two parts, and including the damages he says he can sell it and nett 2000; also that is has yielded him 10 per cent the last year.

  The school is, so far pleasant. Every Wednes - which is considered the beginning of the week; - all recitations are suspended, - the forenoon is spent in reading the Bible and practising selections to read in public in the afternoon when both departments are called together (for the only time). then the young ladies stand out in the floor in small classes, half read their compositions, half, selections in reading in view,