Avondale, Nov. 6th
Dear Julia,
I received your letter last night and am returning good for evil by writing so soon. There is very little to tell you this time, but it would take very little to make as long a letter as when you or Mag write.
You know, of course, that last Saturday night was “Hollow Eve.”
We consider ourselves privileged on that night to do all sorts of mischief. A half a dozen of the girls went out, stole a cabbage, tied a long string to it and put it on the door of one of the new houses. The family have been out here only a short time and we were not acquainted with them (except with the young man, through an extensive flirtation.) We pulled the string and the cabbage knocked the door at a terrible rate. Poor Mrs. Spence!! She was scared half to death, she came to a window and screamed “Help. Fire!!”
We went to stay all night with one of the girls, got up at twelve o’clock, ate salted eggs and looked in the glass. We saw no one, + dreamed of no one, so we are all to be “old maids.” I wrote to Aunt J. last week have received no answer.
Have you seen or heard anything more of your Fitchburg paragon? Do all the girls wear their fans? Everyone asks why I don’t wear mine on my chain, but I think it’s ever so much prettier on the ring. I am afraid you have all deserted poor Mrs. Abbott entirely since you got your fans. Go in once in a while and make a call for me. You will have a gay time Christmas if you spend it in New York. How long do you expect to stay? I shall be very glad to have the Christmas holidays, for of course somebody will come with them. I am writing in school and I see the teacher looking over here oftener than usual. I must close for I must answer Mag’s letter.
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