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[[top margin]] PS This is the most natural picture of them both its a pity cannot be plainer can it be reproduced, have you the negative? there never was a better one ever taken a natural position & all good of her don't you think?
rain at last all night.  Ma [[/top margin]]

Stoughton July 7th 1935
Dear Folks
We have head two very hot days with no rain showers going around with disasterous lightening & cloud bursts and floods. Today its a complete change to day no sun but cold so a sweater seems not any to warm for comfort. I have been about making up my sleep today & she has been reading & keeping quiet. She says we are helping each other to carry on she is certainly one out of a thousand to be cheerful after losing every thing & going about so full of good feeling for every body. God helps her she says & lightens her burden, she helps others by being so lively. The baker came yesterday. I had just gone out the front door around the back way & when I came in she had made him sit down to wait for me in the rocking chair he said to me "I have just asked her to sit down in my lap" & she say your lap well, I guess not in such a lap as that its fun he is just as full of jokes as she is. they try to see which  will have the joke on the other. I get him to do my errands down town he is very good natured. I gave hime those two sythes on the tree out back of our house where they had hung ever since Pa had been taken. he hung them there in fact. summer & winter. they