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doctor thinks, the machine will be in thoroughly good running order again. 

 I hope his prognosis is correct. I should hate to think of giving up 

 tennis and hand-ball for good. I suppose I shall have to be content 

 with golf this summer. I've always had it in mind when I was no longer 

 really vigorous. I suppose, purely from the diagram you make of yourself, 

 that you must use it as your form of outdoor recreation! Or are you too 

 feeble for that ? 



Sixty doesn't seem so old to me as it did once, and I don't believe 

 you are sixty in anything but years, and they don't count at all except 

 in statistics. I know I am only 30 in feeling^ even if your record does 

 say 50. I wish you would celebrate your birthday by making a visit to 

 this western metropolis. You have no excuse now of being tied down by 

 unescapable duties, and I surely think Mrs. Deane would find the journey 

 as easy a the trip tp New Hampshire. Just think: you could get into a 

 sleeper at 2 o'clock or thereabouts and be here the next evening, all 

 the time with not enough swing or jolt to shake the water out of a full 

 glass. And I'm not the railroad agent either! What a welcome the Barnes' 

 family would give you! It would be the best in their locker, sure! COME 1 



ated your kind letters. She is a Martha — cumbered with much serving — 

 or she would write herself. Eut she jointf most cordially in that invi- 

 tation, and as we have an excellent maid, the aforesaid serving is mainly 

 outside — settlement, missionary, church, etc. , that can be arranged. 



Mary asks me to give you her love and say how much she appreci- 



