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and 'spent about all he had earned all summer' you know pride is the biggest part of most of people these days.  Even Lena thinks I ought to dress better when I told her my mother brought us up to think it wicked to dress so much, but she thinks more of people that dress and put-on the lugs, its so, but she will have to go somewhere else to find it.  Pa's catarrh is working I call it a cold in his head, but he says 'no only catarrh'.  I have been feeding the poor starved birds I go out to find a dog has lapped up every crumb I so carefully placed out there for them 
Mattie Steele has gone to the hospital she is expecting some difficultly in calving as she must be over forty, her ma is very anxious about her, so is Katie, she came on from NY so to be with her.