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its very nice weather for someone to go for a ride & it is late for us to be asked to go with them. but Myrtie gets through. Mrs Barry did not go to church she did the washing & got dinner. we are looking now for someone to turn up. she is reading her Sunday paper. my chrysanthemums are blown over by the wind. they dont look as they did since the storm. my plants are still in the kitchen. she likes them there. I will carry them up stairs soon where they will get more sun. We dont see the Ballentines these days, since they had that dog that was such a nuisance. Mrs Barry told them he was a darned homely dog & kept me awake. so they can see how their things affect neighbors, they complain of things so much in the neighborhood. selfishness is a sin they are very much tainted with, we are all so to a certain extent, some more so than others. I received a letter from Mary French last week, will send it along in the letter, its the first time she was ever down there. I am glad she was able to go so far. she is lucky to have those two boys in her old age. a hard time she had with Charles those sixteen or nineteen years of her life, but thats a thing of the past & comes into our lives occasionally to make us fit for another world. I suppose some lives are not all sunshine. Ma

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