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Sept. 30-Oct. 6

....Sam is with us, so with Sue and John we form quite a party. John leaves on Monday and we all go to our regular employments. I can scarcely realize that Sue has ever left us. She seems so natural now that John is not with her. On Wednesday we all go to prayer meeting. Sue and I stay in town as we want to visit some of our friends; spend the next night and day with cousin Lou. Such rainy weather but we manage to wade through the mud on Thursday evening to Cousin Isabella's where we put up for the night and the next day. Spend one night at Orange Dale ....Take tea with Miss McPherson in her own house. She is very pleasant. See something of my dear little Katie. She is soon to leave the county and perhaps be gone all the winter ....We propose a correspondence which I know will be a pleasure to me. Do all my shopping for my trip to Ashland. I think of going down with Sue the last of the month for a visit of several weeks.