ge of your beloved Scotland put me to shame. She declares
she got it all from Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson and
never studied a history of the country in her life.

My wife joins me in love to you and Mrs. McLean. She says that one
of her chief pleasures is looking forward to having Mrs. McLean for
a neighbor the rest of her life.

We will be back in Wellington after Christmas. We are now going to
my wife's native state, Kentucky, where I expect to finish the
text-book on American Literature that I have been pretending to
work on for some time. My wife's presence will serve as inspiration
to me and I hope to get ahead with it now.

Very sincerely,

EDWIN GREEN.

P. S.--My wife, using a wife's prerogative, has read this over my
shoulder and declares that I may be a teacher of English, but as a
writer of it I am a failure. She says she can count about a dozen
"wives" in this little letter, which is very bad writing. But can
you blame me? E. G.

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From Caroline Jackson to Mrs. Brown.

Dear Miss Milly:

I takes my pen in hand tow enform you that most of us is enjawen
pore health and hopes it finds you the same. This letter is writ
for Aunt Mary Morton although the paper and awnvelop is mine, the
same what Miss Molly sent me for Christmus come two yers next time.
Aunt Mary wisht me tow say that she is rejicing that her Molly Baby
done catch sech a fine man as her teacher pears tow be and she is
praying that she will be spared tow greet them both on this side of
the ribber.

We have done cleaned up Chatswuth tel you kin see yore face in mos
any place you is enclined tow look. Lewis has white washed evything
tel it minds me of icecreamcandyandpopcorn. Lewis has also done put
in and tended the garden same as ifn you wus here. The bungleboo in
the awchard is all finished and vines and flowrs growin on it same
as ef it done been there fer yers.

Aunt Mary's grand darter Kizzie lows she is goin tow cook fer Miss
Molly. All I kin say is Gawd hep litle Miss Molly, cause that there
Kizzie is sho slow tow move and proudified (this las from me and
not Aunt Mary).

Miss Sarah Clay is done had twelve cooks sence Christmus and I
cyarnt count as high as the house girls run up tow. Mis