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Stoughton Nov 17th 1933

Dear Doris.

It is a cloudy snowy feeling atmosphere, the heat is on & she is taking her bath.  She keeps busy from the time she gets up in the morning aroun 7 o'clock untill long after noon, the house is spick & span even to his room.  She has even shaken up his bed & got everything straighened out.  Her shingles in from out of doors drying in the woodbox back of the stove, she does that daily, so if it storms they wont get wet, again.  She is very conscientious.  When she comes down she will be dressed up for afternoon tea which she makes a great deal of & enjoys more than anything else, as she is English to the backbone & waits on me as much as if I were an invalid.  I try to make up for it by helping her but she dont want me to.  Pa stands in awe of her & I am glad he does.  She does for him & looks out for his comfort.  He is down now at the table eating, he usually eats at every meal twice as much as he ought to & seems to carry it off.  7 slices of tosted bread a day, two dishes of cerial & two cups of coffee for breakfast, prunes or apple sauce for supper.  We are going to have some roast pork for our Sunday dinner.  I ordered it as we had eaten only canned stuff all the week, corn peas & creamed carrots & onions she likes

PS.  The Dr was all ready to massage my leg & Miss [[?O'Br]] went off with the bottle.  I told him she was absent minded but she said she had been kept waiting by him, hence the delay.  He tells her never to leave him alone with a woman in the booth.  Dr Otts trouble sprung from such a case you remember.
Ma

Snowed during the night & warmer today.  Pa swept the steps & around them, he told me it took all his strength to do it, he was all out of breath when he told me.
Ma