know it at the time you know you wrote me just after i went out west but i always think of you as robinson � same s when we went to school together i married first with a sands but i lost him when we had only been married three years said without any appearance of regret and then i married of i ve been a widow country by ways now these fourteen years tie was a ship master and used to sail out o when i first met with him and after that he was master of the fleet wing out o boston for a good many years he was lost at she was never heard from after they left i wa n t left very well off we d had considerable sickness and his father and mother and a foolish sister made it their home with us and was considerable expense i always set a great deal by father though he was a real good man and be always did what he could he got frost bit down to the banks one winter and his hands and feet were crippled we had hard one spell but my boys and girls got so s they could work and then there wa ii t any more trouble i ve had a good deal to be thankful for but i ve seen the time i d a laid down and died i was so discouraged i live with my youngest daughter now and she s got as handsome a little farm as you ever see and a husband he s doing well too they are always thinking o things to please me both of em i ain t got a child i ve been sorry for and that s a good deal to say there s a sight of risk in up six of em but i want to know how it s been with you i see by the that your brother had been miss pilgrimage yes said miss with a sigh lie was a dreadful loss to me we d been together so many years and there never was a man like joseph any way he was known all through part of the west we d talked about coming on and it s real sad to come without him but i feel s if it was just what be d want me to do if he knew it i hoped i should see him stand up and preach in the old meeting house some of his sermons were thought a great deal of i could n t always understand the deeper thought in em said miss proudly we set a good many times to come on and we did get as far as new york once to the meetings of the american board and then somehow there was always some place we thought we must go to first out west it ain t that we ve stayed right in the same place all these years she explained my brother used to travel about a good deal seems to me coming back this way i miss him more than ever i keep thinking o things i ought to tell him when i get back to it s been right hard to get reconciled then you re not coming back to settle asked mrs i thought first that perhaps you was there we re a getting into but i don t suppose i should know my way round lived here long of my first husband and i always liked the country by ways u t remember coming when i was a young girl to stop with my aunt for a spell over on the shore we ve got to go across the river have n t we i should n t wonder if you could see the house my alive how good and fresh the salt water smells don t it i declare how it car me back exclaimed miss the wind must have come round into the east said mrs wisely it was a little north of west when i started this morning and i thought i should have a good day but then we re going right back into the country who are you expecting to stop with i wrote to cousin because i ve been in the habit of hearing from her every year and one of her sons is living west and has stopped with us several times i did n t get any answer for i started off pretty sudden i found i was going to have company as far as i can go to the tavern if it don t seem to be convenient for i don t know but it would be just as well any way for i feel as ii i was almost a stranger i should n t mind the ex she added with a good deal of satisfaction i know they won t let you go to no folks will have altered a good deal if they have come to that exclaimed mrs in a miss s pilgrimage way that was gratifying you find more that is glad to see you than you ve any idea of if you don t find anybody a waiting for you you come right home with me to sister s and then they take you over to s after tea or in the morning just as you are a mind to you know it s right on the way there and won t think nothing of � our stopping long of me as we fell in with each other in the cars but it seemed very lonely to miss who was tired with her long journey and she became uncertain of her reception and almost wished she had not undertaken the pilgrimage she began to understand how changed the place must be and how little it would be like the she had left and 