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satisfaction it gives to have him free from pain. "Ethin?" is a new girl since I was there, colored, great improvement on the two different ones they had while I was with them. Lewis & Minnie were up Sunday, he is quite well but grows old fast I think, comes home very three weeks. The snow is going fast- so your prison doors will soon be open and you free to walk abroad again on the glad green earth — I like springtime tho I would not mind being shut in as you have been for one season, if I had enough to keep me warm and to eat and to read and one or two to keep me company providing I knew I was not needed any where else. I sometimes feel a little tired, and then a picture of being shut in from everybody is a pretty, restful, picture- but that feeling don't last. I praise the Lord at the dawn of every day that I have breath & strength to start out on whatever mission He has for me for that day, Seeking strength from the damp? I will close this for the noon mail shall hope to see you sometime ere long. Love to Jane & Clark & Frank too, let them know of Mary's condition- May the care of the unclear patient unclear be be around to protect you is ever the prayer of your loving cousin Jennie