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out until the storm is over. this time every family needs a man to do such things. & if we live throu this winter we will do well. I wonder how Doris stands it in Cambridge. The chair arrived yesterday it looks fine I mended the covering that was torn a little in back & we have set it between the table & the bay window where no one sits & is well protected. It reminds me of the time when Pa used to sit there when the lightning struck the house & he thought I had not sensed it because I was so still he jumped up in the air & hollered "Lou we are struck." a very lucky thing it followed the wires & went down cellar & then grounded. otherwise we should have been blown all to atoms. we are depending on Pripello to get our Sunday Post if he goes down town with his car, he is shoveling out their drive way now. I wouldnt blame him if he didnt go to church today but he has gone. his wife was coming over here yesterday to show us her baby, but we told her not to