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PS  Mame & Helen & another young woman drove up to see me. Mame does'nt get out she is about the same all right from her waist up she says. & she is just learning how to eat, she says. she had a letter from Lola Shepard who says Helen Gage is not coming home but is going to stay down where she is in Florida. I suppose she is not able to stand the journey home feeble 87 years old. & lots of money.  Ma.

Stoughton  May 29th 1932

Dear Doris

Now I suppose you are off riding or getting up from your long ride at some seashore hotel the baby in her elements & the grown ups tired from their long hike to get there. I am freezing here, the wether [[weather]] changed during the night, after two days of rather muggy feeling temperature so that a fire feels good to us to day in the kitchen range.

I have managed to get Pa's clothes off his back & clean ones on without much fuss. I washed them out & they are drying on the line, althoug [[although]] the sun is clouded in with the wind NE & no drying day apparently.

Barny Smith as they call him, came & mowed the lawn yesterday & said the lawn mower went very nice, so he did not have to go over the lawn twice. Pa was fretting all the time about being so poor & where was the money coming from. he gets crazy what ever [[whatever]] comes & I have to pay out any money. tomorrow Jay Grant who I met on the street & asked him if he cleaned out privys [[privies]] & he said he did any thing [[anything]] to earn a dollar, so he is coming tomorrow to do the cleaning out  tomorrow I don't hear