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June 10-16.
No church. Mary Lewis and I go to town shopping. Buy me a new black dress for which I paid $12. Coming home we get fastened in the ford by a rock. Have to stay in the river some fifteen or twenty minutes. It seemed a perfect age to us for it was anything but pleasant to be in the middle of the river and unable to move and night at hand. George [Cousin George Meriwether from Missouri who is visiting] succeeds at last in extricating us. I write to Aunt Alice, a letter of thanks for her and Aunt Jane's nice present to Ma ....
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