The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
James Wilson Hyde259"The schoolroom is just a little ways from ----, the name of our farm. It is the schoolroom where I learnt my A B, abs, but I probly never shall go there to school again. It is vacation now and I have come out on to the farm to stay till school commences again. It seems so nice to be where I can have new milk to drink and nice fresh eggs again. I intend to enjoy myself till school commences again. Father has sold off most all of our horses, but he saved my riding horse, so I intend to have rides and drives without number. "Well, as I have said as much as you will care to read, I will stop. I hope you will excuse all mistakes as I am not a very old young lady--only 13 years old."