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Rh that way, would she? You might ask her to write to me. Then I 'd have somebody to write to me. It 's the only thing makes me feel lonesome, when the boys all get letters."

"I 'd better write in my own name, I think," she said, "and tell her about you. Shall I do it that way?"

"There isn't any use in telling her anything about me," said Joe, more energetically than he had spoken for some time; " only just to thank her,—that 's all." This is what Netty wrote:—

The coming in of the stage, and the distribution of the mail it carried were the great events of each