Dear Charles:-
Got a letter from you yesterday in which you speak of seeing Remick. I can see that they cannot afford to put much money into my articles, and I trust you admitted their ability to manage their own business and did not urge the matter any. You know I am a regular "hog on ice" and if they don't want what I write, I won't have to write anything.
I haven't been feeling "delato skookum" for a week but I attribute it to too much work, for I have had a whole lot on hand. I won't be in the best of shape to start out but it won't trouble us to turn off 30 or 40 miles a day for the first week till we get toughened to it. We have agreed to stop each day before we are used up, even if we have to sleep on the soft side of a pile of railroad ties.
The eighth of June is fixed for the day of starting, but something may upset the whole thing yet.
I shall renew my accident policy, and all my papers will be left here in my box at the Puget Sound Bank. I shall probably express a sachel of clothes home, or rather to you; everything else I shall leave at Buck's. I think there is no doubt of my being retained here. The board seems to be after Hootrouft, Mrs. Nickels, and Taylor. I don't care if Nickels does get it in the neck. However, I think Barnard will make a smooth fight and keep them all in. Brown is slated for a job if they can find one for him, but it is yet to be found.
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I have begun to figure on my final reports and hope to have everything completed by the time school closes on Friday afternoon, the 5th.
If our Ariels don't come I shall ride my Cleveland. Our vacation will probably last three months or more so that I hope to have a month or more at home.
Our suits have come--everyone says mine is very pretty, a light brown or gray corduroy, maroon hose and maroon sweater.
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No news.
Will
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