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Sunday Evening

Dear Folks,

I wrote you a letter last Friday night and hurried out to mail it, because I wanted you to get it before Sunday. Can you imagine my disappointment when the next morning the postman brought it back to me, too late to reach you. I had addressed it to Stoneham instead of Stoughton.

This morning I got up at six o'clock and went off quite a distance to get some raspberries. I got a good pint anyway, and between a quart and a half and two quarts of blueberries, I should say. I left the house before Mr. and Mrs. Pettingill were up. After I got back Mr. Pettingill said that he didn't think that it was safe for me to go off that way. Mrs. Pettingell says that he has been reading mystery stories lately.

Yesterday after-noon I got a good piece of lamb and boiled it last evening. And this fore-noon I canned a half-pint jar of that, another of the raspberries I got, and to-night I made almost 3 small glasses of jelly out of a few of the blueberries. It looks good.

I am glad that you got enough raspberries to eat for supper. I hope that you will get a good many more. You are doing well on the blueberries too, but don't get sunstruk, will you?

I haven't my glasses on, and I am too lazy to get up to get them. Consequently I am making a lot of mistakes, I find, but if you can read what I am trying to write, that is the main thing. 

Have you seen the little robbins [[robins]] around the house since I came away? I saw some this morning up in the pasture, and I saw a golden robin too, some cat birds, and some young blue jays, almost too young to fly. I heard a chewink, but I did not see him. There were a lot of them around there last year.

I expect that Mrs. Pettengill will call up the stairs any minute now, asking me if I have any mail to go out, and, as usual, if she does, I shall have to answer, "Not yet." 

I imagine that Maud and Ralph have been up to-day, and that you may have gone to ride. I hope that you are both keeping well.

I am trying to budget my time, and get along with my various types of work, but my sleepiness in the daytime and wakefulness at night interfere with my plans somewhat. Last night I cut off the rim of the good hat I bought last year, set it up on the crown and went down for Mrs. Pettengill to see it. She said, "You can do almost anything, can't you?" And I replied, "Yes, but I think that it would be more to my credit if I saw things through; as soon as I get them started, and find out that I can do them, I lose interest in them." Then she suggested that I bring them downstairs and work on them while she worked on a butterfly quilt the she is making. I think that I may do that part of the time.

Now please let me hear from you often, and how the medicine and diet are progressing, etc. What did Mr. Holmes think about my typing off some bills to the town? Has Bruce paid yet?

Love, Lena 

Transcription Notes:
Chewink, bird species also known as the rufous-sided towhee.