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from the sidewalks they claim. Pa got over his cold in two days. Sunday night he was hawkin & spitting & it seemed pretty tight when he went down to Jacks & then down to fix his fire, but when he come home he brought with him a bottle of Dr Roderic's cough balsam of wild cherry after taking it in good doses through the evening it seemed to smooth up his throat, so that in the morning when he got up his cold had entirely gone, so Irma noticed it & asked him Monday morning where it was. as the night before they thought he seemed in for a pretty good one. Pa had a number of those bottles in the store, he was to sell for this man & thought he would try it & see if it were any good, & come to the conclusion it was. Monday I wrote to Addie Healey & Pa sent a plan of the old Jim Swan lot: he made Sunday, while he was in the Cemetery, Henry Swan wanted to have some idea of it as long as he had contributed to it. (his Grandfathers lot.) I feel that Henry will out live them all, you cant tell, he has good care. Mames card was sent by Helen, it was not Mames hand writing. so guess she is pretty feeble. Annie Skinner has had a shock & Maggie Farrel has taken care of her, so Anna told me. you know she is Alice Talbots own cousin, their mothers were sisters has the baby got any dresses big enough for her to wear? the poor little tyke. she must be enjoying her Xmas things greatly & being so warm down there gets out on the piazza during the daytime I can imagine her going around with her cart, is she afraid as she was of noises? Well I will send you Lenas [[Lena's]] last letter I wrote her yesterday.

Ma

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Edited. Jacks -> Jack's Grandfathers -> Grandfather's Mames -> Mame's Talbots -> Talbot's Ma doesn't seem to use apostrophes, or many periods, or capital letters. except "Dr. Roderic's". Wonder if "a shock" means "a stroke"?