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and warm it comes in to the front room window where I am writing the letter. We have not seen much of it this week and we can appreciate it. An awful gloomy week. Hattie Smith called me up on the phone yesterday and asked me to walk up there sometime so guess she gets lonesome these days. She told me that she heard through Alice Lambert that Mrs Griffin had fallen on the ice in Worcester where she is hiring and hurt her leg, so she was in bed a day or two. I am afraid of slipping and she said she was. I called up Alice and it seems Mystie is down to Sandwich she went the middle of last week sometime. Sue is pretty feeble I take it and I guess she never will be able to do much more hard work. We are waiting to hear some more from Alice since she gave up her job in Newton Falls. She pays her board when she is at Everett five dollars a week, but as you say some one will have to care for her soon, but she will hate to live on her children. She has some project in view from something she dropped, while here, on her last visit. We cant be any too thankful for a home, when we get old and past work. Pretty hard to be out at the mercy of strangers. And where one has had four children and brought them up it. It seems strange it has to be so. Gladys is through with her beau, his sister I guessed it after their mother died, from what Alice said. The bulbs are started but they are in as cool a room as possible without freezing them so what else can one do. We are in N England climate still with four or five inches of snow on the ground and trees and bushes well plastered with snow when it came damp. Jack is gone and George is hunting the towns over for him I think he has been stolen, he was here Sunday and has not been seen since. Pete had his little dog stolen two months ago. I am sorry for Jack he could come home were it possible. Ma