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well without meat I find & it may be better without so much. I sometimes think a fowl might taste good. but Pa would raise cain if I got one. so there you are. he feels poor these days. 

Did you even have a letter from Welkins widow about the Phillip Drake old clock, they never will consent to giving it back, she was the one who put him up to getting it, I always thought. 

If you will believe it there is a robin started building her nest on the front portico. Pa got me to see it, he found it out & led me into the hall to see it. now that darn cat will get it again this summer if we don't watch her, she took the other one at night. & Lina heard them cry in the middle of the night.

Pa says that he cant work & he does nt [[not]] want me to. so he stood over me all the time I was ironing the curtains, trying to help, but made me as nervous as a witch. I let him do what he thought was helping, as it took up his mind for the time.

Eddie Harris came today to share Pa, so now I think he will come every week. Pa was afraid he would not come again but I call his mother up this morning & told her that Pa thought there was no other that could do the job like Eddie & a little salve did the business. Ma