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1870-04-01 Page 06
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There are twenty of them I think. The Junior Exhibition was very nice. there were some very fine pieces spoaken The juniors have been persistantly hirling thir Ehibition Oratory at trees and grave stones of the semetary every fine day for weeks as the Chronacle says, as if they expected to awake the dead by their eloquence; and on its own authority gives notice that all yong ladies and gentlemen who wish to spend a plesent evening socially are expected to be present and occupy the back Galleries. But those in said galleries did not resort to that amusement for all were well entertained. Your loving Son James P Bean
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There are twenty of them I think. The Junior Exhibition was very nice. there were some very fine pieces spoaken The juniors have been persistantly hirling thir Ehibition Oratory at trees and grave stones of the semetary every fine day for weeks as the Chronacle says, as if they expected to awake the dead by their eloquence; and on its own authority gives notice that all yong ladies and gentlemen who wish to spend a plesent evening socially are expected to be present and occupy the back Galleries. But those in said galleries did not resort to that amusement for all were well entertained. Your loving Son James P Bean
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