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I am in hopes they will come up & multiply Backies have spread but the soil there is very rich their garden showes [[shows]] it. she is well cared for in her old age & as she is fond of her grand children they probably don't fret her so much. I hope Elizabeth will out live her mother, but she looks pretty peaked. she had her children too fast. I don't hear much about him but his tubercular may crop out again & they both get it, but I hope not. no one could take her place I am afraid. 

Pa is uneasy today wandering around the house. it makes me nervous. I was out seratching [[scratching]] around & Bruce drove by and backed his parcel car and came to me & paid two months rent. he said times were pretty bad. & he said in regard to the water. he was willing to pay half the bill. he spoke of his laying new pipes in the Spring and fixing the others, when they got clogged he said for the life of him he could not see how they run up. he spoke pf his geese & ducks but it didn't seem they could have made it, or the pipes leaking either. he was awful discouraged and he dreaded the winter. he said he was trying the best he could to make a living but his courage was pretty low, he never saw the times as they were now. I guess if you get out of a job its hard to find one these times. so there you are. the paper says that business in town is picking up and I hope to goodness it does. there are lots of empty houses in the town and that is discouraging to house holders of course. The Gilzers will not be here another winter, I shall hate to have her go. she seems a mighty nice woman. probably some one will come there we don't want in the neighborhood another Irishman of course. Mr. Kay poor man is

Transcription Notes:
grandchildren outlive scratching householders GILZERS - the Gilzer family, often mentioned in her letters.