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Stoughton, Mass
Mon, 17 July 1944.

Dear Sid:
  We had 2 notes from you this morning. I have sent off a letter to Mrs. Taggart about the place Mrs. Robbins wrote about and trust it will be satisfactory if she wants to come that badly. I am thankful you got a good shower and hope you had more. We had a short shower yesterday, late Sunday afternoon that wet down and cooled off. Today is quite chilly. 

Mrs. B. had a set to yesterday, but got over it with her supper last night. I byked down and got some ice cream and with her giant chocolate cake she braced up.  She feels badly to leave that chocolate cake.  In fact she cut off a huge hunk of it and ate it for breakfast with her coffee, and she had another hunk at lunch.  In one more hour I hope she will be gone. It if wasn't rather annoying her tantrums would be as funny as a play. She got mad because when she was still eating her plateful of dinner, she saw us all thru & waiting politely and asked, "why am I so slow - all of you have eaten," and Ma said, "Because you have gabbed ever since you sat down"...  That produced a terrific storm, her bosom rose, her eyebrows went down, and she majestically said, "no one ever spoke like that to me.  I won't stand for it."  And she even put in her resignation and vowed she'd move all her furniture out tomorrow.  We sat around quietly and finally she marched off upstairs, and Doris and I did the dishes.         

Transcription Notes:
She has written "byke" several times in various letters, so that is how she spells "bike".