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Bungalow Village, Bristol, N. H.
July 2, 1928 

Dear Folks, 

I am going to try to get this off on the morning mail so that you will get it by to-morrow anyway. 

We have not had many folks here, but all last week we had four fishermen, who, though they were good pay, kept us up at nights a good deal, as they came to dinner 7, 8, or 9 o'clock at night as they saw fit. They went home yesterday, so we shall have a little rest now. We had a pretty good crowd yesterday considering the weather. Mr. and Mrs. Pettengill want me to understand that my having him here is merely a business proposition, that I am to have first claim to his services, but that if I have not enough to do to keep him busy and he can pick up odd jobs and do enough to pay his board, well and good, if not enough to pay that, he is to pay it from what he earns outside, and if he can't do that, he is to go home, as he has a home to go to. Considering the fact that I had told Gordan, before I left Stoneham, that I would give him 10 dollars a week, or commission on the work he did, as chose, I think they are just about as square as it is possible to be. Mrs. Pettingill inadvertently overheard Mr. Darling telephoning trying to get a boy to row some fishermen for two days or so. He didn't get any one, so I told him about Gordan. He immediately got the job. He loves the water and was hoping to get some such work. He spent the rest of yesterday after-noon, after his father and mother went, unpacking canned goods and packing it away for me, putting up cleats to hold the stuff on the shelves, making Alice a dresser out of old boxes, washing the dishes that were around, and others as they came out of the dining room, doing errands, and such like things. Then, just before he at his supper, he ran down and had a dup. He did it all easily as if he were doing nothing. It did seem good, for Alice is dreadfully slow, and gets all played out and has to go lie down after doing a lot of dishes or the like. She is very nice with the people, but incapable of taking in situations, apparently. The other morning I heard a customer say that he wanted his coffee with the first part of his breakfast. I got the cream out, but she took the coffee in without it. I asked her three times at least to take the cream in before she comprehended. She kept saying that they weren't ready for it. When trade picks up enough to warrant it, I plan to put Gordan in to the dining room too. I think he may be able to move things along a little.

Mrs. Ott has sent me her fireless cooker, triplicate pans, some glass jugs, and jars, and two boxes of the smaller jars and preserve jars. I am hoping to get some jams and preserves made to sell. The strawberries, though blossomed profusely, apparently blighted, for I have been able to find only a very few; but I think that the raspberries and blackberries out to amount to a good deal. They are blossomed very thick.

I wish that you folks could come up to see the place. The Otts went home around the lake; and Mrs. Ott writes that she thinks we have the best location on it.

There is much more I could write, but I guess I will try to get this into the mail now and write again later. I hope that you are not working too hard. The birds and flowers are beautiful here.

Love

Lena