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I think this the proper place to insert the following letter from Dorry
Baker to his sister. I am sorry we have so few of Dorry’s letters. Two
very entertaining ones will be given presently, describing a visit Dorry
made to William Henry’s home. The two boys, as we shall see, soon after
their acquaintance, grew to be remarkably good friends. Mr. Baker,
Dorry’s father, hearing his son’s glowing accounts of William Henry’s
family, took a little trip to Summer Sweeting place on purpose to see
them, and was so well pleased with Grandmother, Mr. Carver, Uncle Jacob,
and the rest, as to suggest to his wife that they should buy some land
in the vicinity, and turn farmers. He and Grandmother had a very
pleasant talk about their boys; and not long after, knowing, I suppose,
that it would gratify the old lady, he sent her some of Dorry’s letters,
that she might have the pleasure of reading for herself what Dorry had
written about her Billy, and about Billy’s people and Billy’s home.
Perhaps, too, Mr. Baker was a little bit proud of the smart letters his
son could write.
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_Dorry’s Letter to his Sister._