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and John Hollis. Barbara is a good cook and always has a good dinner. They have a pretty little home all to themselves, built up against a cliff in back. A yard on top is reached by narrow stones built into the earth like steps. I feel as though I was going to lose my balance when I go up and down. Consequently I wonder how Barbara is able to lug washings up to the line and down again. I hope she will soon have an iron rail along the side, but perhaps she does not want one. 
    Lawson Ott and his wife came one Saturday about two months ago and took me for a ride to Hopkinton where they had bought a house. They were quite pepped up about it, but Mrs. Jackson, another friend, and I had the feeling that the place was too big -too hard to heat and keep clean. It was located on the outskirts, and had a large barn connected with it, where they planned to breed and raise puppies. My consolation is that if they find it too much of a burden, they can probably resell it. The trouble might be that prices seem to be going down, and so they might lose on the deal; but they are you and so can take a little in reverse; I guess. Lawson has a good job in town, so is not dependent on the place to earn him a living. 
     Have you and Mrs. Barry managed to keep somewhere near comfortable this weather? I hope so. 
     I had hopes that this year I might get some noticeable cleaning and sewing done. Then the latter part of April I came down with the shingles, which I still have. They broke out on my shoulder and back next to my spine.  The pain was terrific for a long time.  The doctor said that in incapacited some people to the extent that they had to be sent to the hospital.  I thought that if I could keep going enough to get my own meals and wait on myself, I would save hospital bills.  He said the trouble hung on from 8 to 12 weeks.  My is going to take more, it appears, as I am still suffering pinwheel pains in my shoulder and raw, rubbed