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Ames, Iowa.
Sunday July. 10. 1881.

Dear Papa.
I will be glad to have you come home.

The passenger train went to Des Moines yesterday, because thirteen bridges are broken down by the rain between Ames and Coun-cil Bluffs.

It rained again last night and our side walk was washed away again.

It rained 5 in. 4' Mamma took Ernst and me to the barber's and our hair is so
short now that you