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I do not know, + w'd like to know!
Norman writes from the Old Place that the
snow in the woods is four or five
feet deep, that he has a son + heir, +
that "Thekla"[?]has several grandchildren.
We are counting the days till the
unharnessing[?].

We have had the "howling" without the "daffodils" of Tennyson's