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                  25 Christmas.

  Great time here yesterday. The 

domestics were little out of order & Mike has evidently very narrow

                  the

views about ^ marital relation. Mary's Irish trait was laughable. One moment she was begging me to put her husband on the horse & punish him - yes draw & quarter him. the next she was pleading with me not to put him in the guard house. When I interfere with man & wife

again - then ______.