Leonard Bridge,
Monday, night,Dear Swester,
I wonder how it would seem to try to write a letter out of school I have written two epistles for your inspection lately but didn't get a chance to send them some way so they will never go.
The young ideas have done fairly well lately and I hope they will keep their brains until next Friday when Mr Richardson will again appear I suppose. I wonder how many more will too.
Mrs Strong said Clara had been so busy schooling today that she hadn't eaten any thing since breakfast that was when I was up there after school, she has done well and learned such hard words as "snow" and "stove" to spell. Her brain seems as strong as ever too. but this is shop I must stop.
Poor Miss Stowell has had a hard time this term she has my sympathy they have had to take Arthur Clarke out of school because she couldn't manage him. Miss Manwaring says that she has no government at all but I am too well acquainted with the school to side against the teacher more than to say it's too bad.
The minister invited the converts to come here tonight and Howard Carpenter, Van Lombard, John Smith, Mr and Mrs Sullard and Lizzie Capels are here. They are in the parlour and I am in the kitchen. They seem very hopeful if not the ones we might have picked out to be so in earnest.
The first three have been among the first to take part in meetings lately and not with a verse only.
Miss Billings says she has seen Mary Plumb and knows her mother she spoke very highly of her mother.
The Crusadors are in Goshen holding meetings now they have a house full I guess they have lots of music and tambarines (don't know how to spell it) and holler around. They say.
One woman got up in meeting Saturday night they say and said "I'm glad I live in Goshen and I expect to serve the Lord if it cracks the lamp chimney"? The Nye's went up Saturday night and I guess they have all gone tonight it is good bait for them.
Some of the folks go to see the fun I suppose.
I had a letter from Yoshi the other day she wished I was there to sympathize with her on the subject of Physics. She seems a trifle homesick I think I must write to her soon.
Time flies One little bit more shop. Mr John Smith said tonight that Clara went home and said she ran around the stove six times and had to stand on the floor sixty hours to pay for it. I guess she stretched it some as she stood on the floor about five minutes in all.
Jennie said a while ago that she wished you could come to her wedding you and Charles were to have invitations, so you are included in the family Rev. D. J. Bliss & family. It is to be a swell affair I suppose. She has some nice clothes, and underclothes by the bushel or less. very fine no wonder we havn't [sic] seen her all summer. She wants a tinted light and has her white gloves and slippers etc. etc.
Grace is very neighborly and we get along well so far. Eva is there now is to leave tomorrow. It is bed time now I have to go in and see the folks a while and give them some apples and cake and water.
Good Bye.
M. A. Bliss.