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Friday in Babcocks to hang were [[Shamvi?]] Young, Dickinson & Higgins also Furyk who brought his landscape  I say put it in the show & all agree.  Babcock says he can frame it but today Higgins says they didn't put it up & Furyk took it away on 5 oc train to Hartford. 
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See how faded she is.  Gertie is quite worn with anxious care.  The nurse seems course in her cause but I suppose all these professionals are so.  Auntie B poor dear is cheerful but it is certain is only keeping up because dear mother is still there.  Poor mother. God help us all of us that gave her so much anxiety in her life of care for us.  Poor mother poor dear mother.  Why is it we could ever give her any sorrow.  How good she was  how true she was in her care for us.  How unworthy I am of so beautiful a mother  God help us.  Mother has earned her glory.  We are to suffer still  we who gave her sorrow.  All day as I cleaned up the old red lounge that she used to rest on I thought of her of all the years in

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the old house where she would lie on that sofa to rest from her care of us.  Dear mother  so wasted now that beautiful mother who was so strong and fine in those years so nobly true to all of us.  Comes back to me now the days of fathers illness, of mothers sadness and of the day when I all alone with her had to go up to her & say that poor father was gone.  Poor creature that I am  poor creature that I am and and mother.  I will never forget that morning when mother sat in the rocker by the window where for so many years she sat and waited for the homecoming of father  away all the months of the year and returning only those few days, but waiting mother knew that still he'd come.  But that morning when hes gone never to come again, oh that terrible sorrow that terrible sorrow in dear mother as she sat by the window. realizing that never again from out of the light beyond the