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iiie  pxcvure  of  the  Museum  reveives  so  many 
little  details;  your  office  in  the  Hwing"  and  ta 
the  rows  and  rows  of  drawers  filled  with  many 
specimens  so  carefuly  prepared  and  tagged.  Also 
the  head  of  that  old  grandfather  rattlesnake, 
whose  fangs  used  to  send  shlwers  down  my  spine. 
Then  there  was  the  beautiful  garden,  some  of  which 
I  see  in  the  picture,  and  the  tennis-net  cat 
fence  which  you  tested  with  tne  family  Tommy,  or 
one  from  the  neighborhood,  to  his  intense  disgust. 
I  do  not  see  any  pigeons  on  the  roof  but  weem 
to  pa  remember  your  having  written  me  some  time 
ago  that  they  had  been  disposed  of,.,  ooo- 
I  can  readily  imagine  that  ife  is  v«ry  hard 
for  you  to  have  to  give  up  the  old  place,  especi- 
aly  with  Mr.  ^rwester  gone.  Time  has  an  unfor¬ 
tunate  way  of  changing  things, sometimes,  when 
we  most  desire  them  to  remain  as  they  were.  But 
this  cannot  rob  us  of  the  many  years  of  happy 
usefulness  that  these  things  have  given  us. 
It  is  good  that  Mrs.  Brewster  is  well  provided 
for  and  has  close  firends  to  stand  with  her  in 
her  bereavment .  I  do  not  think  I  ever  met  her. 
Shortly  after  I  last  wrote  you,  Malcolm  came 
down  with  the  whooping  cough.  The  Archie  followed 
and  now  they  all  have  it.  It  is  most  trying  but 
they  seem  to  stand  it  well  and  we  are  hoping  that 
the  warm  weather,  which  we  must  have  before  long, 
will  help  them  to  finish  it  up. 
We, too,  have  had  a  most  trying  winter.  Snow 
constantly  and  days  at  a  time  when  there  has 
