I wanted to see you coming up the street this summer in your knickerbockers and with no fish, but still happy.

Never mind, we shall do the theatres this Fall, and have good walks downtown.
I hope Mother will come up and visit me this September, at Marion and sit on Allen's and on the Clarks' porch and we can have Chas.too.

I suppose he will have had his holiday but he can come up for a Sunday.
We expect to move up on Santiago the day after to-morrow, and it's about time, for the trail will not be passable much longer.

It rains every day at three o'clock for an hour and such rain you never guessed.
It is three inches high for an hour.

Then we all go out naked and dig trenches to get it out of the way.