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Thanks to Mr. W's efforts she was soon liberated.  After the
cows had all been <s>left</s> let out, Mrs. A. asked us to see her
little pigs of which she had more than 20.  She was quite surprised
to find this morning a number of little tiny ones that had
been born during the night.  They were certainly neat little things
hardly 8 in. long and about 4 in. high.  They felt very soft to the touch.
They had their eyes open and were quite active and could grunt quite lively.
Mr. A. who had driven the mother cow out not knowing that she had
had three little ones, was now obliged to find her and bring her to them.
We were so pleased with the litle pigs that we asked Mrs. A. to hold
one and we took their picture.  After seeing the little pigs we
went to another part of the large barn and saw the little puppies.
From the barn we went down to the field where Mr. A. was ploughing.
We found him a very pleasant old man.  He is a German Lutheran
who had come to this country from Polish Russia.  We asked him for
the use of his boat, for we  were anxious to cross the stream to see
the old house at Joppa.  He told us we were welcome to the boat
and directed <s>h</s> us where to find it, but thought we could not
<s>get there</s> make use of it on acc't of the ice.  We now left Mr. A. and soon came
to the place indicated where we found his son and another man chopping wood; we
        