My dear Susie:-
Can't you express your cur just as you would a bundle? I should think that if you attached to a suitable part of his person a collar bearing an addressed tag and six or eight feet of rope to manipulate him with that the express company would take him at So. Had. and deliver him to you at Staf. Spr. You might ask, write or telephone and find if the ex. co. will do it. If they won't I know of no way but to get him to Holyoke as best you can, put him on the baggage car and pay whatever fee there may be. Then you would have to put on your sweetest smile at Springfield and ask the baggage master to put him - the dog - on your next train, and so on and so forth.
Or you might, as I have sometimes heard recommended, tie the beast's leading string to the rear platform of the train and let him run behind. You would thus afford him considerable exercise which is considered quite beneficial to a dog.
It would very much simplify matters if you could persuade your best young man to get your property on the train for you. I wish I could be there to take his place.
We have been reading "Soldiers of Fortune" Richard Harding Davis; "Under the Red Robe" Weyman; "Seats of the Mighty," Parker.
Friday
A supper was given hear at Mrs. McLean's which brought in about eleven dollars for the Public Library. Snow was about three inches deep then. Most of it has melted now.
I am very sorry that Mary has been having so much trouble again. The same mail which brought your letter gave Ida one from her - the first we have had from her this fall. She said she was slowly improving. I hope her recovery will be uninterrupted.
I wish you could see how happy we two youngsters, Ida and I are. But perhaps you can partly guess. No, you can't do anything of the sort!
Well, I wish you a very pleasant Thanksgiving and I shall hope to hear that you are back at college again after it.
I shall want to hear your dog story after you reach home.
Your loving brother,
G. N. LawsonMiddle Haddam
Nov. 21, 1897.