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Furber decided upon Frank. Albina likes Ffloyd - I don't - awful homely name to write. Mother proposes Metcalf for a name, which pleases me much - more than it does Charles I believe. How would Charles Metcalf do? Metcalf would be so odd -different from any body else - I like it exceedingly. Charles came home last night - Thunks some of going to work at the Foundry a few weeks hauling wood. He "endures his dignity" very well - behaves very properly - Is worthy patriarch of Pleasant river division of S. of T. by the way.

               Your Temperance Celebration  reminds me of our Pic Nic on the 2nd Anniversary of the birth day of the division 22nd Jan. Pretty good time. Good supper, good singing - good lecture in Intellectual improvement - short - by Dr. Snow, some speeches - a number of good toasts - a few fabricated at our hose, part of which are the following. "The cause of Temperance. May it not only sweep from the earth the woe of all intoxicating drinks, but the habit of using the "filthy weed," and the still more abominable practice of profanity." Mother's. 
         The secret of the Sons of Temperance - Let them guard it well since "secrets with girls like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till be without dissimulation, their purity be purified from every infinity, and their fidelity be rather towards their better halves than the - tobacco quid.
       It was said in joke before hand that ever son might carry his wife and sweetheart! which induced the following - The Sons & Their wives and sweethearts would express their gratitude for the privilege of occasionally sharing the festivities of the Order, though mercifully debarred the honor of "riding the Goat." Nine cheers. 
      Perhaps I might have interested you more with something else than so long an account of our petty celebration here. Why didn't you tell us what you speechified? It snows and blows - one or both of