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Rh we gave up writing them down. That is always the way. We ain't going to school till we're sure we are not going to have the measles. This is all I can think of, so I will draw to a close. Remember, you can pray for anything you like.

"Dear Peter:—I never wrote to a boy before, so please excuse all mistakes. I am so glad you are getting better. We were so afraid you were going to die. I cried all night about it. But now that you are out of danger will you tell me what it really feels like to think you are going to die? Does it feel queer? Were you very badly frightened?

"Ma won't let me go up the hill at all now. I would die if it was not for Judy Pinno. (The French names are so hard to spell.) Judy is very obliging and I feel that she simpathises with me. In my lonely hours I read my dream book and Cecily's old letters and they are such a comfort to me. I have been reading one of the school library books too. It is pretty good but I wish they had got more love stories because they are so exciting. But the master would not let them.

"If you had died, Peter, and your father had heard it wouldn't he have felt dreadful? We are having beautiful weather and the seenary is fine since the leaves turned. I think there is nothing so pretty as Nature after all.

"I hope all danger from the measles will soon be