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would like each other now. Jule says "tell John I wish

                [ and would step over here some day]-

he had a pair of seven league boots [insertion mark-^} for I have a great desire to shake hands with him." She was here just after I got your letter & so I gave her your message. We had a laugh over old times. And Jule says she is becoming lamentably[underlined] amiable[underlined], & has more tender[underlined], than tinder[underlined] in her composition, that her friends are getting afraid that they'll never get her off their hands for she has not preserved enough of her original spunk[underlined] wood?[underlined] & fire[underlined] to light[underlined] a[underlined] match[underlined]. There! Cant she make awful[underlined] puns? Almost as bad as yours, indeed I think sometimes theyre worse?, You and Ma & Jule would have a good time together I think. But goodbye, my dear darling brother. Frank is waiting to take this to the office. I'll write again the last of the week. R-.[long wiggly line]