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to try. he is very honest & faithful. he takes care of her cat & is looking out for her interests & helps her all he can. she gives him a lot of money. now yesterday a man had bought a sign post & he left the two dollars with Laurance to give to her, so after she got there he gave it to Mrs Barry. she took the money & gave half of it to him. she had a sign there when she opened a tea room with Dr Ervings wife over there in her house.
they made no money but she found Margret Erving out to be a darned cheat & liar. she would not pay her share of expenses & wanted all the profits & stole them. then went away and lied about her. very intimate with Maudet Ghan Lapen & just like them, so Mrs Barry says she has no use for any of the bunch. they are not to be trusted when your back is turned. I am glad your hot weather is holding off. I like the cool weather much better. the fruit trees are coming soon & the heavy rain of last week is going to be just in time to send them along. some one came the last week to speak for the grass over to the old place. its hardly time to mow it they will come over here I hope to get it around back of our house my lupin is handsome this year. I enriched it last summer. these are 28 or more clusters of very dark blue blossoms on it now. there are leaves on the seoteh rosebushes you sent up. I hope to nurse them along the best I know how this summer. the thirstiest one is under the kitchen window & hope it wont get stepped on. I am going to put a rock beside it soon. Mrs B is resting she got tired packing up yesterday. no sleep last night
Ma