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nights ride - I am tired and sick of riding in the cars and especially in the night. it is a most disagreable task for me now, however I am in hopes to find a stopping place soon where if I live as well as they do here at the Briggs House I shall soon grow so fat that my good friends in So Dedham will not know me. - "By the way" this Briggs House is just the best Hotel I have been in since I left Home. they have the most obliging sett of officials about the House and a Stranger is sure to be well cared for. - 6 PM Morse has just come in and says he has a prospect of a job with Green. consequently we shall not leave tonight as we were calculating says he shall know tomorrow about it. - may get my letter yet. who knows! - went out after ten and rolled 3 strings of "ten Pins" with Morse. - get beat every time. - smat [sic] business that. - home and rolled to bed. -

Saturday Jany 26th

   What a city for Fires. - there is an alarm almost every hour. but I do not [sic] on any very serious Fires. - they seem to have an efficient  Department consisting of some very splendid machines well manned. - Hook and Ladder companies &c - besides they have a steam Fire Engine which I hear the Firemen do not like very well - with all these facilities I should think  there would be very little danger of a large conflagration. - here we are waiting for Morse to decide whether he will stop or not. - he is what the Western folks would call a regular One Horse team. it seems as though he never would make up his mind to anything. - he must look and look and talk and guess. and then he dared not risk it. - Oh, Fiddle in such a fellow - I shall wait much longer for him. - I cant afford to stay here at the rate of $2.50 per day to accomodate him or for the sake of his company. although it is rather more pleasant to have an acquaintance to travel with. - if he does not conclude what to do by Monday I shall leave. - if he stops here I shall go to Burlington as I have some