book2

LETTER TO EDWIN.
Si
and also pretty plain.
Some who write rapidly
might almost as well let alone their pens ; for no
one can read what they write without the great
est difficulty.
I will not take time to tell you what he
wrote ;
worth reading.
but the letter really contained something
Henry and
Edwin lived almost two hundred
miles apart; and the customs of the places
where they lived differed so much that they had
many things to relate, whenever
each other, about what had happened.
they wrote to
Besides,
Henry lived near the metropolis, and had been
much in it; whereas Edwin had never seen a
city of twenty thousand, or even ten thousand
people,
in his whole lifetime.
Then again, whenever they wrote to each