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    Yesterday, when I was out for a walk, I saw a lot of crocuses in blossom. They made me think of yours. Have your snow-drops gone by?
    I was reading in my diary the other day that on April 13 of last year we had a heavy snowstorm, 10 or 12 inches deep. The roads were blocked because the plows had been put away for the winter. There was no school. The storm continued during the day, and I remember that it was afternoon before they got around to break out our street, although usually they start before light. We didn't have anything like that this year, though snow flurries were prophesied in the Old Farmer's Almanac. I guess that we shall not see much more this spring. The leaves should be out on the trees in two or three weeks at the latest now. I can hardly realize it, and see no very great signs of them, although there is changing of buds and color in some of the branches. 
    A week ago last Sunday I heard frogs peeping. I thought of you. Probably you heard them long ago. I haven't seen very many birds yet, no bluebirds, but I hear the robins nights and mornings, and there seem to be at least one flicker around, maybe more.
    I go over to Iva's once in a while. They are not very far away, and she, Aunt Maud, Ray, and Lois, come over here sometimes. Ray has not yet got any steady work, only a day's work now and then, usually for the town. He was going in town today to see if he could locate something at Hood's. A man that he knows works for that company and told Ray that he would introduce him to some one of other connected with the company if he would come in. Ray, I guess, is willing to do almost anything. I should think that he would be. Iva has been working in the shop earning a little something, but the company has been taken over by receivers, so she expects to be out of work there by Wednesday or thereabout. 
    I have been talking about going out to Daisy's for a visit. I was to go March 22 or about that time for the week-end, but Oren had a cousin who descended upon them and continued to stay on for so long that the date has been postponed several times. Now I think that I shall wait until I can eat a little more normally before I go anywhere to visit.
   The woman down stairs has not been upstairs bothering me but once or twice since I got back from Stoughton. I gave her the cold shoulder then, and I guess that at last she has taken the hint. Once when she and her husband thought that I was away she came up, and I suppose that she probably does at other times when I am really out. I am going to try to get keys to my doors; and then I may move. I don't know just what I shall do. I may take a house with Iva. There are two that we can get at a very reasonable price. Perhaps we might as well have a place of our own as pay rent to someone else all the time.
    I do think, as you do, that you were most fortunate in getting Mrs. Osborne to be with you. Please give her my love, and tell her I hope that she is getting out of doors and enjoying the spring air and sunshine.
    I hope to answer Doris's letter this week. I am way behind in my correspondence. 
    I suppose that your patchwork is progressing, if not all done by this time, you work so fast. 
    All good wishes for a pleasant time in your garden.
 Love, Lena