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110 coming out from my pocket while waiting for the boiling of the tea-kettle, or between the turnings of the toasting bread, the frying griddle-cakes, the handing up a hot meal from the fire to the hungry sitters around the table, or the waiting upon the faded blossom stretched away in the tented corner now giving hope of a slow return to health, pleading no longer simply for water, but bread, too. Poor little blossom, what wanted I for thee here, that you are coming again upon the feverish track, where all wear out a weary or disastrous life? She has taken your little note and read it very carefully. Now she talks much about you, and your nice room, and of all the family. What strong affections she has ! what shall we do with them?

You will be glad to hear that Mr. C —— is sufficiently recovered to go up into the Territory. If I supposed it would interest you half as much to hear of the progress of State matters, as I flatter myself it does to hear about our domestic arrangements, I 'm sure I would pay more attention to all that is going on outside the cabin.

Since the fall elections Missourians have