I Yb d almost closed this without telling you a story of the St. 
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Johns. Phil is a great friend of theirs and he writes, hr. St. J. 
has been eating rabbits, Pelgian haees, and he came to me to get 
a recipe for tanning the hides- Mrs. St- John lets him beep them 
in pickle behind the kitchen stove. She is a very broad-minded 
■"oman." This is a direst slap at Mrs. p. who will not allow the 
space behind her stove to be used as a tannery* 
I am finishing this on the morning < f the iSrd.♦ prunding 
cut a fe~ lines as I have the opportunity. 
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