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of money right now and don't know just how soon they can have it done. He will get the word when they do have it done. 

The houses in the court are stucco & tile but there is much inside work to be done & that is only waiting for the money to pay for it. That is the cry everywhere. This work in that court I told you about is what we were counting on when we came back here it is only a few blocks away. Egbert got a heavy card board carton down at a store in Washington St near here and made me a soiled clothes hamper by cutting it over & putting in six cents of wall paper and waxing it. It gave us the idea of making a small one & taking it to down to a baby shop in Wash. St & see if he can get orders for them. He would have to make a very careful job of it & line them with white They might take. He worked all day on one yesterday instead of going to church. Oh yeah. 
Well if you & I had been real smart we would have been salting our cash