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amount to much I think. It is dull enough listening to such preacher after hearing a man like Ryder. It was a cold rainy day & Chicago was terrible muddy. I did not enjoy it much. I expected to have been at La Porte Saturday but it was too muddy to come up with my buddy & it rained Friday so that I could not get to Chebanse to take the cars. Saturday was a very warm pleasant day in the morning & I helped put the lightning rod on to our new house & after dinner I got on to Kate & Moricals brother on to Bill to go to Chebanse. It was clear & very warm when we started, but we had not got more than a mile away before a very black cloud came up in the east & seemed to be making directly for us with such a roaring as I do not remember of ever hearing before I could not make out what