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was so broken up now its only a shelter for us two old hulks waiting our time to pass to the home we are destined to go for peace & comfort. to join those who have gone before & are interested in our old fashioned ways & wont mind ours I hope. its [[it's]] growing cold. tomorrow I am afraid will be freezing the wind blows from the west & it goes towards the North. I meet Harold Smith every other thing down to the doctors James I think us treating him. Dr Brides told me yesterday that he was teaching him all his spare times evenings. & he was a good lad, he was to the Doctors mothers for thanksgiving. they had two turkeys they were cheap this year so he said. then afterward he said they were going to drive down to Nantasket & come home by the light of the moon, he took Miss O Brine probably. he said yesterday she was the life of the place & I think she is. you can always feel theres [there's]] something lacking, to go there & she is not there. they are so quiet. she had the doctor give me the violet ray with the glass. its apt to give one a shock if one does not understand it, when Miss Ray gives it I am a little afraid but she would be all right else they would not trust it to her. you a [[are]] liable to get a shock. he touched it lightly with his finger nail while his foot was on & it showed fire to show us. Miss O Brine understands it & dont want anyone to use it that dont [[don't]]. well Pa is cold up stairs & has come down to get warm. we have just put on heat it is after three & the sun is growing lower Ma 
he is scart [[[scared]] & took me out to tell me everything was going to pieces