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and Helen.  she is in bed all the time now, and is very weak.  Aunt Rebecca has got moved, she has what was Grandma Bealses room, over the sitting room, its very sightly and she is delighted with it and seems very happy and thankful for such good luck  its wonderful how well she seems now. I am waiting for yarn now.  We havent seen Lena this week I wrote her last Sunday and generally she is very promt [[prompt]] to answer but she is awful busy this week I suppose.
  Pa and I put up the little stove Tuesday and so we have our sitting room warm these cool evenings and its nice and homelike.
  We feel that its hardly time to begin heating the whole house, and besides Conmurphy dont bring the coal.  Pa says its all payed for on butter, we have got half a ton left over from last winter, so we are not bad off you see.
  This will do for now, as my pen is just an old stub.  Pa is riding and he carried his pen with him   Ma