CORRESPONDENCE 211 



10 Oak Grove St., Minneapolis, 28 June, 1886. 

 Dear Professor: 



A good many years ago you told me to be sure and write you 

 every mouth and now three or four months do not appear longer 

 than a mouth used to. 



I came out here with Mrs. B. the first of May and the children 

 are determined not to let us go away, but we hope to be home in 

 about three weeks. This is a great country and growing very 

 fast. The boys are all doing very well. Have nice places and 

 keep good teams and we enjoy ourselves very much. 



Calais, Maine, July 23, 1886. 

 Dear Professor: 



I thought I wrote you from Minneapolis, but upon my return 

 home find a piece of a letter started for you among my papers. I 

 was so busy doing nothing out west I did not attend to things 

 very well. AVe left for home 12th July and arrived home last 

 Tuesday. We spent a couple of days at Kennebunkport and 

 found Capt. Beudire there at the hotel. He appeared to be enjoy- 

 ing himself very much. He is on his way east and promises to 

 make a visit at Calais and shall be very glad to see him. He is to 

 spend a week or two at Mount Desert and then come east. 



I did not see much that was new in the way of natural his- 

 tory. A taxidermist, F. L. Tappau of Minneapolis, had a black 

 Wild cat, Lynx Rufus, that he got in Florida. It was black all 

 over as much as any black fox, but you could see the spots a little 

 ou the sides. If it had been in any kind of order for mountiug I 

 would have got it for you, but the fool had cut off the feet to 

 make a rug, also the head was gone. He has the skin, if of any 

 use I could get it for you. 



Did you ever have one? 



We find everything all right at home. My man and woman 

 took good care of everything. Frank Todd tells me salmon are 

 very scarce this season, only about a dozen taken with fty. They 

 cannot be expected plenty every year. 



There is a large crew at work putting water works iu Calais, 

 Milltown and St. Stephen. Have taken my farm upon the hill 

 for a reservoir and things look quite lively about town. We 

 expect Charles and family next week. He tells great stories 



