If anybody talks, there, I shall claim the right to say a word myself, & be heard among the very earliest—else it would be confoundedly awar kward for me—& for the rest, too. But you may read what I say, beforehand, & strike out whatever you choose.

Of course I thought it wisest not to be there at all; but Warner took the opposite view, & most strenuously.

Speaking of Johnny’s conclusion to become an outlaw, reminds me of Susie’s newest & very earnest longing—to have crooked teeth & glasses—“like mamma.”

I would like to look into a child’s head, once, & see what its processes are.