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keeping him as quiet as possible & says he cant bear company but goes up in his room to be alone. she talked quite a while with us both, she must be lonesome & says Myrtie will stay in Vermont as long as she can stand the cold weather. I am sure Percy cant stand it very long the way he is, they say he looks terribly. Alice can marry George Lynch the one she should have had in the first place. 

I am taking the time to write while she is down town paying the electric light bill & doing a few errands. tonight she has been invited out to spend the evening at Harold Williams house where they play cards & see the old year out & the new year in. she lives the next house to where Ralph & Maude used to live but she does'nt go until I am in bed about half-past eight. I guess tonight will be my sleepy night as the night before was one of my nervous nights could'nt sleep all night was'nt sleepy. I have them occasionally.

Julia Gardner did call up on the phone & I being up stairs Mrs Barry answered it. glad she did for my being deaf its sometimes hard for me to understand. Did you hear where Lindburgh has offered his servises over air or by sea his servises to fight for his country, its funny wherein people do'nt see the good in that man. we feel that he will die in the cause. the president calls him "a copperhead". too darn bad, he is for his country everytime & is'nt understood by the majority of the people.
Ma

Transcription Notes:
I put [[good guess?]] next to words I guessed on and [[?]] in place of words I didn't understand.