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they are ready to snub her and hurt her feelings every chance they can get, you'd be surprised at the things they do and say to she and Ruby. Poor Mary misses Abbie to go in and relieve her mind to; and get sympathy. I wish they were father apart for her sake. I don't know how Lena is going to stand it till next June, having cold after cold, it will surely pull her down pretty low, that must be an awful damp hole to live in. I wish she might go to a dryer place and give up teaching for a year otherwise she will go as her Mother and Father did I am afraid too bad. Pa is preparing to do away with the lightening struck trees, he has got Dykemans cross cut saw home this morning. We hear that Mrs Dykeman wants to come home. The Fishers have got a car they have been running this winter. I havent been any where for a long time its been so cold and I am so busy. Sue asked me who was sick at Ralphs as she had seen the doctor's car there, but I had not heard then, you know they have the Ds for every little thing, as Maude says, they want to make sure. I should mind expense a little these times. Well Amelia Cliffords funeral was yesterday another old stager gone she and Azuba went pretty near to gather, soon we shall be the old people of the town. Well no matter as long as have our senses left  Ma