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Have just got our first coal in for the winter. 11.00 per ton. a dollar more than it was last year. Hope to have about $20.00 to send you this week--then will try to be regular hereafter. Arthur's letter is very good. Am going to teach Malcolm regular handwriting rather than printing. The printing is all right for learning the letters, and he can make them all just as Arthur can, but for word building I prefer him to use regular script. There is too much to unlearn the other way.

 I sing the fingerplay