St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-01-12
"THEREARE SO MANYNOOKS"
81 Have Been Bidding Goodbye
to Some Places To-day"

to Some Places To-day"
South Otselic, July 6, Thursday
Night-My Dear Chester: II you take
the 9:45 train from the Lehigh, there,
you Will get here about II. I am sorry
] could not go to Hamilton, dear, but
papa and mamma did not want me to,
and there are SO many things I have
had to work hard for in the last two
weeks. They think l am just going
out there to Deruyter for visit. Now,
dear, when / get there l will go at
once to the hotel, and I don't think
I will see any of the people. If I do,
and they ask me 70 come to the house,
/ will say something so they won't
mistrust anything-te1l them I have a
friend coming from Cortland and that
we were to meet there to go to a
funeral or wedding in some town far
Their along. Awfully stupid, but we
were invited to come, and so had to
cut my vacation little short and go.
Will that be o. K. dear?
You must come in the morning, for
have had to make you don't know
how many new plans since your last
letter, in order to meet you Monday.
dislike waiting until Monday, but
now that 1 have to, l don't think it
anything but fair that you should come
up Monday morning. But, dear, you
must see the necessity yourself Of get
ting here and not making me wait
If you dislike the idea of coming Mon
day morning and can get train up
there Sunday night, you would come
UP Sunday night and be there to meet
me. Perhaps that would be the best
way. All I care is that / don't want
to wait there all day or half a day.
think there is train that leaves
the Lehigh at six something Sunday
night. / do not know what / would
do il you were not to come. I am
about crazy. I have been bidding
good-by to some places to-day. There
are SO many hooks, dear, and all of
them so dear to me. I have lived here
nearly all my life.
First I said good-by to the spring
house with its great masses of green
moss; then the apple tree where we
had our playhouse; then the "Bee-
hive" cute little house in the or
chard, and, of course all the neighbors
that have mended my dresses from a
little tot up to save me a threshing I
really deserved.
"Oh, dear, you don't realize what all
this means to me. I know I shall
never see any of them again, and
mamma, great Heaven, how / do love
mamma! / don't know what I will
do without her. She is never cross
and she always helps me SO much.
Sometimes think If I tell mamma
but can't. She has trouble enough
as 1t Is, and couldn't break her heart
like that.
If l came back dead, perhaps, il she
doesn't know, she won't be angry with
me. will never be happy again, dear
wish I could die. You will never
know what you have made me suffer,
dear. l miss you and want to see
you, but / wish / could die. am 60
ing to bed now, dear. Please come
and don't make me wait there. II
you had made plans for something
Sunday, you must come Monday morn
ing.
Please think, dear, that had to give
up whole summers pleasure and you
surely will be brave enough to give
up one evening for me. / shall expect
and look for you Monday forenoon.
Heaven bless you until then.
Lovingly and with kisses,
| THE KID.
P. S.-Please come up Sunday night,
dear,