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An Afterglow MARS' HILL

Oh! I am sorry about the eye and more than glad that the pin missed the mark. "Pins may have saved the lives of a great many people by not swallowing them" but they are dangerous things for all that.

Shortly I hope to send you more of Mars' pictures. We have had the worst season I have ever known, not one first-class day so far and only one or two second-class ones. East winds on end. What folks characterize as beautiful weather and worse than a storm for sight.

I hope Thanksgiving in the far woods was ideal.

Here there has been no snow as yet. Even the peaks which some three weeks ago took on a lacelike mantle have allowed almost all of it to fret away. We had a cold snap due to a mighty wind from the east of course, we know no others and the water-pipes froze, the man not having kept a proper fire.

I am writing from the new library where I have been making my seat this year. But it is sometimes cold. 129