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Percival Lowell

With regard to the exhibit I have just wired you. Here endeth the second lesson. Now we will sing a hymn about Mr. H.'s good work. I am enclosing you his measured drawing of the detail he saw in the photograph I sent you. Excellent!

To you goes also that capital little clipping about the planetary intercommunication prize, explanatory why Mars was excluded. Complimentary but premature!

I have decided to give an ambulance to the County, and also I am buying today a Ford for immediate fitting out of Professor Sargent, who arrives tomorrow, in his botanic trips and for general use thereafter.

I suddenly just now on a walk flushed or rather saw, my attention roused by a slight sound, a coyote shackeled by one of our traps. Two weeks ago this trap, set for a coyote, disappeared and nothing had been heard from it. I turned instinctively and there was a large brown coyote shambling along dragging a trap. It was in the little valley just this side of the outer Southern ridge of the home place. I started after him and found he could go nearly as fast as I could. So I made for the shop, roused the men and we in posse went to surround the little copse on the second rise. We failed to find him there. So I left for the house after a slight detour west and on my way flushed a jack-rabbit the first I have seen this year squatting in the low 148