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enough sugar to put some up Bob Dil has just come in and is poking my elbow for me to pet him  he is on his back now. Keeping quiet for a few minutes, Pa.  Well Pa has passed this on for me to fill out and as this will be all you will get this time, I will do my best to let you how I have put in my time. Lena went Thursday morning, since then, I have been pretty busy canning and picking berries. I have put up twenty jars of berries, they were very thick up in Athertons pasture this year but it has got so late I shall not go again  by the way Sunday I went up there alone and got into a hornets nest, and one stung me before I saw the nest, I was picking the bush where it was, as you know berries are always thickest around one, I was lucky to get out as easy as I did Pa got worried + so came up to find me I got 7 qts and 6 qts Friday mosquitoes are awful they about eat you up. Pa bought home a bu [[bushel?]] of gravestien apples and I have got half of those put up in jars. shall have the pears to jar next so you