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in acknowledgement for it looks its gratitude by its freshness and increase beauty how many beautiful lessons may be learned from nature and what abun- dant blessings ^we^ are constantly recieveing of times without a thought of recognition of the great dispenser of all these bounteous gifts– Joseph came home feeling quite disap- pointed all met at Jamaica and waited four hours some too long to get home before eve and no surrogate or clock made their appea- rance it was too bad to [illegible] [illegible] time to suit their own convenience and not be on hand to attend to it efficiently at this busy season Joseph is ready to go to the office so must say farewell I feel as tho your visit had scarcely been made I saw so very little of you that it is not looked back too Mary