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years, they ought to have something laid up to show for it. I doubt if they have, so many have been on his back, Poor [[O?]]. Ralph has got moved and guess he is glad of it, his family are more by themselves now. I wonder who will come in there next. My dinner is on cooking mutton broth. Pa wanted to get something for today but forgot it, so we'll have to get what we can pick up, we are having too much meat any way. I made cookies, two kings of pie, apple, and cream, and a pot of beans, plenty of bread and opened a jar of rhubarb sauce. So we shant [[shan't]] go hungry. I thought I would like to carry in some to you all day yesterday, for it must come hard for you to do so much. dont know but you are sick by now. We shall have better days sometime, Washington is certainly subject to grip and influenza, sort of a healthen country. Well hoping this will find Sid better with love Ma.