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CHARLES HUNTRISS - LETTERS HOME

Getting his thanks and excuses in first .... .

My dear Mamma

As I know that you will write to me on my birthday I will write and thank you for it so it will answer it though in the night before.

I have been absent from school ever since Friday morning after school and went to bed directly. I was away one day in the beginning of the week ...

... after dinner or rather at about 2 o'clock for I had no dinner and there I stayed until after after breakfast this morning with a very sore throat. The doctor says there were great yellow spots in it. It hurts most awfully. I had a bad headache on Friday and part of Saturday. It had been awfully jolly today. I have been in the library and drawing room with another fellow that as strained his back somewhere or other, but we are both going to school tomorrow. I am for a birthday present - that is why I am writing tonight because I have no books and therefore I can't do any lessons.

I have had a dormouse brought today it can go at at a frog. It ran across the table twice and jumped off and ran into a corner the first time. but the second it directly??.

Once this afternoon it ran across the table and I thought it had jumped of(sic) and after I had been looking for it a short time I saw it on the edge of the table cloth.

I hope if Papa does come down at all is is next Saturday and stay in London all Sunday and come and take us up to London on Monday because it is so near the next holiday which I think we shall all get except me but if I lose it it will be because I have not been at school for such a period.

I do wish Daisy was not going to be sold. Many thanks for that book you gave to me for my birthday present. He gave me it before on Saturday night because I should have nothing to do all Sunday in bed. I read it through on Sunday

... the first chapter which I read on Saturday. It is a very nice one. I think I did not read all the lectures only forty of them there and them thereyou bought it on the day that Lelly and and you and I went in the town one day to Birtwhistles and I believe you chose it because no had no name on of the price in it. I tried to find out but I couldn't.

This ugly ?? is intended for Isabel it is here in her perambulator and Bill showing her in it just fancy then.

Harold nor I got one and now I must stop.

I remain your affectionate boy