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very modest but a great talker and could play like the dickens. it took him all the after noon to tune the instrument for it was sadly out of tune. It seemed as if I wanted to be there talking with him all the time and Pa at last said keep away, he has got all he can do to finish his work and get his car back to Brocton originally he came from the Cape, where he has a summer home.
I am going to get him some trade here in town I have spoken to the Toomeys, and Alice Talbot who seem favorable he didnot make anything on us for those felts are awful expensive and they are never going to get in there again, for he put in ground clove after washing it out with kerosine. I thought I should roast this week with out heater a going and yesterday with the thermometer at 70° and a coal fire all day in the kitchen stove. I thought Id die, now today its cooler and the heater is out down cellar but we can make up a fire in the sitting room stove later on. Today its raining hard a gloomy day a cold wave tomorrow is predicted. I am going  to make a couple of mince pies and a plum pudding tomorrow (o how I wish you could be with us) Sue had to laugh when she read your last letter about the "old hen and a few vegetables" she thought you could set things off to make them sound comical. she was pleased to have me come up with my work, for she said that she felt lonesome. Alice was away I was glad of it. she is so tiresome, I am going to have a pot roast for dinner I cooked it yesterday. It must be a great relief to Si[[?]] when he lands his four women and hope the supper will more than compensate him for the job. We are all well at this time. Pas knee is bothersome when he is on his feet much. we are liable to such ailments at our time of life, thus far, we have been pretty lucky. well this is a rambling letter so I will close Ma.