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94 her table so many years? Two tumblers we find whole, one saltcellar, and plenty of plates.

How rich we feel! and how we begin to look forward, as well as backward, to a condition of civilized housekeeping! And how, too, my dear mother, the olden-time housekeeping comes to me, as a Sabbath-rest time, which will by some process, come round to me again, when you will preside, as of old, and this me keep house within the circle of your atmosphere. Till then, give your blessing to your daughter. H. A. R.