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home to help her mother. they say she is good to her folk. I have just picked a big bunch of my pink chrysanthemums the storm rather spoilt the looks of them. the bronze button ones. & a few little yellow button ones. so I have in the house three big boquets of them in all. its getting most too dark now to see to write. Careta came to see us last night. she is fond of Mrs Barry as they all are. her cousin is jealous because she is so popular. she dont treat her decent. but Blanch has just called her up on the phone & she is going to send us a bottle of her home made grape wine to drink with our Thanksgiving dinner. that will be the second one she has given me. this year. so she is good to us after one of her spells. Mrs Burnham has been taken to a charitable ward in the Massachusetts General by Dr Faxon. Nat is going to see to her, she had only three cents with her at the time. one side is paralyzed, she is a wreck they dont expect her to live. the woman who was working with her in the restaurant, has taken over a share & is running the business. she has a more business head & will make it pay so they say. I have got a ton of very good coal so my fire runs all night & is good in the morning it seems good. & since the furnace door was fastned on I feel safer. lucky it was done before the storm & gale came. he said it was terrible careless, he told Mrs Barry an explosion would have been the consequence at any moment. he said the one wire was the only thing that held the door on & it was liable to slip down at a minutes notice. Ma. I am thankful & had it fixed at the time I did,