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Stoughton Oct 23rd 1921
 Dear Doris:
  This is certainly a very nice sunny day for the last week in October. I am sitting in my usual place by the table, close to the open glass door, writing this letter. Pa is in the kitchen shaving. most all of the foliage on our trees has turned a bright yellow, no frost yet. but night before last we covered up things, as the weather grew so much colder, but the thermometer did not quite reach the freezing point.
  Pa has skipped around town with the new horse to beat the band this week. I am still a bit afraid of him he is so tall and carries his head so high, although he seems perfectly gentle and not a bit nervous and seems to be looking for a kick or a slap, which he will never get here.
 The Burns'es are going to Brockton to take mealers they have got to get out this week, as they have sold their house I hope they do well but am little afraid as business is and they dont any of them possess much business abilities, they are crazy to get money. and I guess they will need it too. 
 We were taking our Sunday after dinner nap last Sunday, when who should walk in but Elbridge Ross he said his mother was out to the road in, an auto, and wanted to see Lucy, so out I posted and found his mother and sister Viola and her husband. I was glad to see them and they seemed pleased also, we chatted away about old times She does not grow old at all she was always a pretty woman without those characteristic features, pretty eyes and a good woman.