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always Mrs Marshall says it always draws a croud they all beg her to sing, but she says no [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] so on special occasions she helps them out by her going to sing. Bill came over last night. one of my panes of glass have dropped down and broken from the front outside windows. so he said he would come over and put it in if I would pay for the glass. do the work for nothing. I guess the leaving them on through the summer was the cause of it probably. There is something happening always to stir one up. We are lucky to have some one to do things for us Bill is very good he will do for others if he takes to them. he has a dislike for Lena she tried to show off her knowledge to him about carpentering, he said she displayed her ignorance an old trick of hers. I hope your arm and shoulder now is much better, Mrs Bruce the grandmother came up to pay me the rent, so I told her that the boy could put his cat in the barn while he fixed it for a couple of weeks or so. she said it was a warm place to tinker on it he is a good boy. they have lived there twenty years he was born there she said. she gave me an extra $5 bill. in time they may pay up she says, I am going to have some mince fries we are both going out for xmas so we shall have our dinner later in the week. I may have a fowl for the end of the week meat is very high so is everything. we are living as simply as possible she eats out a lot. Ma