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Stoughton July 20th 1947

Dear Doris-

Our humidity of 10 days is at last broken its much cooler over the weekend for which we feel very thankful for. nights have been very humid but they say vegetation has not suffered so far between so much precipitation. everything is high eggs. 85 & still soaring. Laura has got rid of her hens, so we bought just half a dozen of Perdigas, lucky we dont even eat them for breakfast. I never cared for them when a child & lived on a farm & we had a plenty then mother sold them for 25 cents a dozen. & we raised our own meat & vegetables, also had two cows & plenty of milk. I used to drive the cows to pasture up front of Ira Holmses I wonder if those fields look as they used to when as a child we used to go up there after huckleberries, Charly & I. we found some bats in the rock & brought them home to show our mother. she told us they were bats & had us carry them right back & put them where we found them. we always called it then the bat rock. there was pasture land, meadows & several acres all sold & Horace got the lions share of all my fathers property, I only got what little mother had in the bank which I put into this house while the Holmes carpenters remained in carpenting & will always have a home of my own & a well made house.

I have just written Lena an acknowledgement of her card

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bats? one word missing & needs to be double checked before submitting