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the sun is just beginning to creep out. Ring has just been with my stamps & change. I am dreading to night and the torture I will have to go through. Mrs Ballentine has just made me a call on her way back from Winnies where she had been for corn treatments. Winnie must be earning enough to run the family. She is lucky that way, but not many would care to exchange places with her lot & have the two fools on their hands.

We have had supper four O'clock, junkets, bread and blue berries and tea. I am all out of broth ordered some beef today & will start my broth tomorrow and put in carrots and onions and potatoes. My junkets are as good as anything. I dont feel hungry for anything in vegetables but can get these two down in soup, my gumption is poor. I got Louis Dykeman to bring up his cabinet chair he made for his mother out of an old chair with arms like ones in the dining room so I could have it beside the bed handy in the night and it seems good but it made Pa wild he could see nothing good about it he said the water would wet down through the ceiling and spoil the plastering and I was going to have him sent away Louie carried it up to the top of the stairs and I had Pa lug it into the room. he says his grandmother Fischer had it in the worst way and old Dr. Sevan had her bathe her leg in alchohol [[alcohol]] 1 pint to 20 dashes of oil of mustard to start up the circulation he says denatured alchohol [[alcohol]] would be just as good. I may get to trying that Ma

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