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Show no greater judgment. But this characteristic, like love, is blind. It can see or realize but the one thing.6 Again Ellis displays her largeness of spirit by addressing the principle involved, and not the personalities. It does pique the natural curiosity: Who did what? Milford, Mary, and Ellis, in the next three days, do some monumental plantings. More melons, and 1,250 tomato plants, many of which were set out, after a day of rain, between 6:00 p.m. and bedtime. With all of the settling in, Ellis is keeping her social contacts alive. She calls on Sister Staker, an old friend who now lives in Sugar House Ward, and visits her nearest neighbor, a Sister Nobles, with whom she is so favorably impressed as to "anticipate in her a valuable addition to my many true and noble friends." This is a Sunday which has taken Milford and Mary up north and left Ellis to spend the first night alone in the new home, but for her three little boys "who are a solace and comfort" to her heart. "After our evening supplications and devotions we retired early. The night very cold and rainy." On Monday morning as Mary and Milford return they bring with them a thousand more tomato plants and three hired men. The cold nights have seemed "too much" for the plants which were set out earlier. No sooner have the new plants been taken care of than Milford announces that he wants everyone to go into the City and set out more plants in a lot that he has rented "for that purpose." By the time they finish, it is so late that they remain in the city, |