Orestes is sorry to hear of Henry's accident to his shoulder and hopes it did not occur through somnambulism, as Orestes' wife still thinks he got his fall down stairs in that state. He asks Henry if he has any photos to gave of his family. He is glad to hear Philip Brownson is better. He does not know what any of them look like except that father Gara said that Mrs. Fifine Brownson is short and someone else that she wears gold spectacles. Orestes agrees that Henry's is right in not sending his children too young to school for the confinement is bad for them. Orestes' Rosa Brownson is seven years old, began school last september and now reads the First Reader well and leads her class. Orestes asks about "Orestes" Brownson his namesake. Orestes is surprised that Henry has six children already. Verily the Brownsons are not to fail with the death of the great Review. Orestes' Sally Brownson 14 years old is second in the 5th. grade. She is tall and looks like Sarah M. Brownson Tenney about the nose, mouth and chin, with eyes and forehead like Sally H. Brownson's. She is the most promising of Orestes' children, except for the youngest Charles Augustus Brownson, 5 years old, who is a "terror on wheels." He can tell anything about the farm and the stocks. The others have some peculiarities, but in his present circumstances he can not educate them much. Anna Brownson 12, Luisa Brownson 10, and Rosa Brownson go to the school to himself about four miles from home. Anna and Rosa are near-sighted, Charley is a little cross-eyed, but all of them are healthy and can eat all they can get. The fifty dollars Henry sent is a very great help for Orestes is poor almost to distraction and his family has suffered much for want of good clothing. Ned Brownson 16 years has been working on a farm for some clothes and Orestes can not do much on the farm and teach a school 4 miles away, for he must start at 7:15 every morning and gets home at 5:15. The only bad luck he has had lately is the loss of one horse valued at $75. Orestes has 2 cows 4 calves, 10 pigs, 43 hens, 4 geese and 2 turkeys. He raised about 200 bushels of corn, 10 bushels of buckwheat, a lot of garden stuff. He made 30 gallons of sorgum molasses. Ned and he worked in the lead mine Thursday and got 40 lbs. of mineral worth $1.20. He will send Henry the receipts he wishes. :: III-3-a A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo 11