Viewing page 152 of 208

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

so she is to go the 20th of the month. while I was talking to her in the square. Ed Leonard came up from behind me & said that there was more corn & beans in his garden than he knew what to do with & to go in & help myself any time, so I thanked him & nodded.

Then when I got as far as old Mrs McGarveys an old woman on her piazza accosted me & wanted to know how Arthur was I said who are you? come to find out it was Eva Braman she used to go to school with him. I said I knew you once, we used to see each other & meet at the Lyceum & Uncle John Churchills she & her sister Estelle. she said I would never known you, nor I you said I, we are old women & so we parted after telling her to come & see me, she lives on Prospect Street, & used to live up stairs over Mrs Chas Jones there is where her husband died. I think Pa is looking forward to your coming but wont say. he has a check he is saving 'till Doris comes home he wont sign or give it to me. he does not give me the credit of knowing any thing about business, simply because he always did such things himself, he is very set. I think there are blue berries & huckle berries, but last year they were very plentiful. these last few rains have been the means of saving berries & all kinds of fruit grapes are very thick this is the year. Ma