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Lena has just turned on the news. we are listening in to the talk on Oliver Wendal Holmes, his funeral is today on his 94th birthday, he was a great man & reveranced by all, his time had come why mourn
I am waiting patiently for you to send the sweater so to begin the other. it has been snowing with the sun out so I am in hopes it is going to clear off. I hope your finger is not painful dont get blood poison. she went in to see Ralph yesterday he was very sober she thought, but looked well. has Sidney had a letter from him yet? He may be worrying over his expectant grand child. Mrs O & I figured it was coming this month. she wanted to go keeping house. Ralph has got furniture stored in his barn enough to furnish a house if they did. they would be better off financially to live as they are. the house is large enough also. I am going to put this in the door so if he comes he will get it, then you can get it by the last of the week. There is nothing much to write about. Lena brought home a bone they gave her not a bit of meat on it she has been boiling it ever since last night all the evening & so far since breakfast ever since she got up in fact she says a soup she is making today she is going to get some oysters for a stew for Sunday. Mrs. Osborne did not like oysters, so we never had them. she did not believe in cooking much with corn meal in England they always used it for their animals they never eat it. lots of thing we have now she made a cornstarch pudding for our dinner it was good everyone has their own way of doing things Ma