V I am very sorry the investment has proved so slow and difficult to close out,but TI try to feel that the delay in selling may somehow work to our ultimate benefit,but in any event I am here this winter to again try to find a- buyer and make a sale About be to our I think it will the deed.There advantage I should do be as well to are one withhold so,but if or it you two yet wish reasons awhile to why from record it might record. it,possibly T am dreadfully sorry Marriner about the whole dam thing. I disliked to have had to call on you for a contribution, for I fully understand a persons state of mind who is asked to pay. towards the upkeep of something in which he has funds tied up from which equally as no interest hard,indeed is being derived,but it. has been much harder financially on me and in addidion outcome may has been and is prove favorable constantly to you the arixiety 7 with that me the “We are boarding this winter at Miss Levys and next door lives the game warden of this district,so I occasionally hear a “littie gossip of the hunting field.It has been about two years: since | fired faithful oid I shail ever Cleveland a gun,My Tennessee own. Last and altho some of whom had that the country interest in game change dogs are all dead.Jacks dog,poor | was the last to go and probably the summer we visited in Toledo,Detroit I met a few people last and’ of coneiferucie. means, once been keen about a dog and gun,I found club and golf had in a large essere supplanted preserves and shooting. bs Ss LOW ee 7 The winter has heen unusually mild,roses and various kinds of flowers are blooming in all the yards and evening boat | 7 parties down the bay are still enjoyed. As you may be aware, ether than you and your father I have no correspondent in Ogden, so,until your letter I did not know about the trial,and T now indeed sincerely congratulate you and Jack also for. I assume he was sme laded.. 1 know it is I hope the holiday season well to and happy. Remember yourself best of all and Dorothy good wishes me a relief to have it over and done with. finds all the Brownings of both families kindly Mrs.Mc to your father and Jack Cormick joins me Sincerely your friend in sending and the Seeray 12)¢ Le O47 rN