DEAR PARENTS,--We have to study much more now than at first, but as I am less behind the others than I was, it is not so hard.

I shall change many things in father's place when I come home; for there is much that is wrong there, and it is wonderful that it has prospered as well as it has.

But I shall make everything right, for I have learned a great deal.

I want to go to some place where I can put into practice all I now know, and so I must look for a high position when I get through here.
No one here considers Jon Hatlen as clever as he is thought to be at home with us; but as he has a gard of his own, this does not concern any one but himself.
Many who go from here get very high salaries, but they are paid so well because ours is the best agricultural school in the country.

Some say the one in the next district is better, but this is by no means true.