A Letter Written on Oct 12, 1902

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Templeton, Mass.,
Oct. 12, 1902.

Dear Lucy:-

I have received no letter from you but there may be one up at the office for I didn't go up last night as it rained "great guns." I rode down to school with Linnie four days last week but came back on the cars. I have had such luck trying to catch the car. Twice there was a class-meeting and then I had to go to the dentists. They are trying to descide [sic] whether to change the school colors to from red and white to purple and white and have no atheletic [sic] colors. What is the color for Amherst? Linnie wants to know. One morning when we drove down we got down to the railroad crossing just as a freight train got there. I guess we had to wait fifteen minutes for it to switch.

Isn't Miss Fairbanks funny? The other day she asked to us what the Illiad [sic] was about. Not very many raised their hands and she had to hunt before she got an answer. At last she got one and she told us never to forget the subject of that or the Odyssey or if we did forget never let people know that we had studied Greek history for that would throw the blame back on to her.

I knew that when Carl Drury first came here you and he used to have good times to-gether but I didn't know that you had carried it right on. I went up to the market yesterday and he wanted to know how I was and if I wasn't pretty lonesome. I think that he misses you.

I went down to Cousin Minnie's Saturday Karl was out on the piazza. He saw me when I turned in to the yard and yelled out, "Hullo, Mary." I cut myself Friday night and by the way it bled I guess it was deep so I have got out of washing dishes. I have it all done up but don't intend to wear it so to-morrow Cousin Lottie and her husband are going to stop here to-morrow so I am learning the alphabet over again.

With Love
Mary.

P.S. Had a letter from Luella last week. She sends her love and wishes you success. M.