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but perhaps I get along just as well. Pa has just got his paper to read it is something for him to look forward to each night. it does not take him long to read it just the Stoughton news. Powers the undertaker they say is not very well. his son will learn the business. I think it pays to keep it in the family, good at all times of the year.
Lena asks in her letter, if I see many of the spring birds. the only ones I rember of seeing seeing, are the old crows. they sail around early every morning. I wish George would shoot them some morning, when the birds begin nesting. they will be after their eggs + young ones. there are also plenty of cats around darn, there is something for everything. The new family across the way have a collie dog I never see the people who live there. probably another Irish crowd who will not care for neighbors. Pa says there are two men go there he sees. Cloudy Thursday morning. on ow I guess Ma