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he and the dog are happy. Pa is combing what little hair he has left on him off. This is a sunless day and I guess we had better get in our bedding. Have just put the room to rights and been having a nap for I was tired from yesterdays work but now I can say my house is about all cleaned for this year, tomorrow I start in on Abbies house cleaning, two hours a day wont be very hard work, and she will feel better, if it was'nt for her in the condition she is in I would not do it, but she cant get any body to do it and she is not able. Dennis has got so he walks out with his nurse but he looks like a shadow and I guess he feels like one,  Mame gave Pa Allies pocket book with his name in gilt letters marked in it.  something, like the one he gave you. Charlotte Ayers is starting in with another kid I should think they would soon have to finish off the barn, into another tenement, for of course she mus'nt go away from home to live, she has got two pretty children if they are white hens chickens. I hope you are over your bilious spell  I have had a spell but got a bottle of Salhepatica and we both took some I think that is good for me, it works the gas throug, I have a lot of gas which is a sort of indigestion I suppose. I am making some tatting for Lena to trim a pink waiste with  you have some old corsets at home that I have been whitening out which will be good when you come home this summer. well this is all now.
Ma