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Dad is reading Mr. Dooley to me by snatches every other paragraph. and I fear this is becoming too incoherent. I must sit him down to finish, but at my words he dashes out to tend his fire. He always has loved a fire in the backyard. The Welburns have just telephoned over about who will fix our roof after the blow -- their shingles came off too. Mr. Weir is still alive or was in the middle of the week. The Hadleys have had us goosechasing down there but so far we haven't seen their bird. The robins are around the place calling. We saw a flock of 12 [[strikethrough]] little [[/strikethrough] quail cross the lawn at the Doctor's house yesterday and huddle around the blue spruce. Here comes Dad. 
Love,
mother

Dear folks:
Mother/has kindly left me the weather to talk about. Yesterday was pretty mild inthe morning. Whitehouse had promised to come over and trim my apple trees if the weather was [[strikethrough]] goo [[/strikethrough]] good (we had rain and a little snow with big flakes an inch [[strikethrough]] acr [[/strikethrough]] across on Friday evening), and I kep [[kept]] expecting him,but about 2 p.m. he called and said it was so wet and nasty that he wasn't coming. I tried to tell him that we hadn't had a drop of rain, which was practically true, but he had made up his mind. About that time it began to blow and soon we had almost a hurricane on our hand I [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] found a roofing shingle in the yard and then discovered that the shingles were rai [[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]] sing up in/groups in at least 4 places, and all the rest of the afternoon they kept doing that. [[strikethrough]] A [[/strikethrough]] About 4 blew off and many others must have been blown up and down so much that they are weakened. I called up the company who did the roofing and found that thye [[they]] weren't open, so shall call the first thing Monday morning. The Docotr [[Doctor]]lost/one shingle and I noticed some on the Gi [[strikethrough]] v [[/strikethrough]] bbons' roof had gone. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Our elec. was off for over 2 hours ,an unusual [[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]] length of time for it to stay off. The paper said that a tree blew down on the Rockville pike and [[strikethrough]] brought [[/strikethrough]] hit a telephone line and brought down 20 telephone poles. 

This afternoon it was quite mild out.I lugged up the remains of the old apple tree, which were quite extensive,one being about 12 feet long,and by good judgment and the plentifu [[plentiful]] use of grass and leaves raked up by mother I have almost entirely burned the thing up. I had dreaded sawing it,but found I didn't have to.
 
Our bluebird box is installed but the bluebird hasn't looked at it so far as we know [[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]] ,although a Chickadee did today. The entrance hole is far too large for him,however. 

I am planning on spending an hour or so on income taxes this evening. Maryland is deducting a tax from our pay, with/the weak-kneed connivance of the Federal Govt. We are told we will get it back, but the DC. people who pay a small DC. tax won't. Love.
Dad

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Transcribed the strikethoughs, slashes spacing and misspelled words in the "Dad" section as seen on the page. Included the correctly spelled word in brackets where appropriate.