I have sent you all I had by me and we have been pinched a good deal too.
I had a chance of a pass on a cattle train and Ma said why don't you go
east yourself and see Nelly. But I said no school's most done and she'll
be coming home and how can I leave? Shaw said she we can tend to
everything all right so maybe I will come. I have written to Timothy and
will do as he says. I have a feeling Daughter that you need some one by
you in the city. Ma sends her love and asks why you don't write oftener.
We wouldn't scarcely know what you was doing at all if it wasn't for John.
"Your Loving Father,
"EZRA D. WINSHIP." It seems I'm to have a new chaperon. He's a little
stiff in the joints and his face is wrinkled and his talk is not that of
society and he's coming out of the West on a cattle train. Good Lord!
Oh, yes, he'll come. Uncle Timothy'll urge him to take me back to the
farm.
I won't go back! As soon as I had read this news I started for the
Imperial Theatre to see the manager. I walked, for I have no more credit
at the livery stable; and I was grimly amused to see in the shop windows
the "Winship hats" and graceful "Winship scarves" that are coining money
for other people while I have scarcely carfare.
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