May 28th

You do me a great injustice in supposing that I ever ill-treated any young Lady – and jolly Pop – Mitchell the very idea of her submitting to illtreatment even tho’ one dared to think of such a thing. I do remember meeting [ ? ] you with Willie McDougall and was foolish and unjust enough to draw some very bitter [ ? ] absurd and unjust conclusions therefrom.

I am very sorry that you have given up the idea of going South. I wanted so much that you should see my home and become known to Father and the rest. I think the plea of your health and the warm weather is only a pretext of your Father’s. To day I went out in the woods and made a sketch of the Porcupine Hills but I am not at all satisfied with it. After lunch I went and played cricket for a while then came in and looked over your old letters – reading portions of them now and again. By the by – how would you like to have portions of them published in some of the Montana papers. You know they would show off civilized life in Canada and might prove of some benefit to you hereafter !!

I consider the above a very sly dig in your side. But I don’t wish you to take it in earnest. Believe me my darling I am rather glad than otherwise that portions of my letters have been published.