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willing & still what earthly good are they to keep. just to clutter up the room that might be useful to store some thing else of more importance. they are just reminders of other days that are gone by for this life & we dont care to see them again.

When I went down to the corner with my letter I called on Jims [[Jim's]] folks he had just been to supper & Ruby was home. Mary is terribly bent over she seemed pleased to see me & so did Jim they dont [[don't]] either of them go to walk Mary is terribly broken down in health & still she is a little younger than Sam. So guess I am going to live to be a hundred but I dont want to live to such an old age if I can help it.

Mystic spoke of Wallace being so round sholdered [[shouldered]] & said he had a regular hump to his back. She never speaks of Frank Caper being so. he is all right with both she & Alice but  Wallace Penniman is worth two of him. I must write to Wallace later on it was a hard blow to lose his oldest son in the prime of life, hard in his old age too
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