Dear Alice. I just finished a letter Myran and I feel it my duty to answer the letter which you have not written yet as you did on your last. Well first I have a little Turkey. I expect you'll say "Pshaw I've got lots of em!" But this one of mine is not one of many but a nice big only one in the family. It picked the shell yesterday morning and this morn it is not much further along. I went out to see it and when I cam back in I was tired and laid down and in a few minutes I was sound asleep and I'd been doing a quite a lot of figuring to get money to send to Myran and I dreamed I was at a strange place trying to sell a fine big gobbler that weighed 33 lbs for $8. I said he ought to bring 10 but I wanted money so bad I'd take 8 for him but I wakened before I even got the eight
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I went out after dinner and he was clear out lying on his back among the other two and 11 hen eggs. I brot him in and weighed him. (3 oz). I sure would not take $10 for him now he is so promising. It's the one with the writing on the 'big hens egg' and it's so sure a nice big poult. The other two are all ratty and wont hatch. I have put out about 675 ?? little chix and had splendid luck with them.
Nellie's had to care for them lately. Got 245 ?? out of incubators last week and have stopped now. Only the hen that had the turkey egg has 11 to hatch.
I've not been very well and can't do hardly anything and am in so much pain but hope to be better sometime maybe as Ardin said. Can't get anything that seems to help me.
I just finished the letter to Myran and
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sent her 35 on what I owe her. We expect her home, hope she come rite away. We have lots of strawberries now and hope she will come while they are good. Henrietta and Jim were up last Sunday week ago and are coming again this next Sunday.
Rolland and Chrissie had birthday. I remembered Chrissie and will try and send him something sometime. I don't do much now - can't.
Nellie sure has been a blessing to us this year. Papa and I've so good for nothing and she has sure been a help. Little Katherine sure talks so cute. She barefooted today. I wish you were coming with Myran. Come when you can we'll be awful glad to see you.
We'd like to come and see you but I'm not even able to ride to town and Papa is
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not very well either. The Dr says he ought not to work but he just does and is getting ready to plow corn as Russell has too much to care for alone.
We have 41 little pigs. Awful nice ones. 27 are thoroughbred Jerseys.
We picked (or Papa did) 24 quarts of strawberries and I steamed them and Nellie canned the remainder this morning. We made eight peanut butter jars of sunshine last Sat. Do you have Strawberries?
The Cherries are not going to amt to much this year. The plums are full yet but the cherries didn't fill out and most of them dropped. Some few of the trees have some but most have none. I want to see your place so bad I can hardly wait till we can come. Did your Rose grow and the white Lilac? I thot that was a bridal wreath when I sent it but it was a spirea ???
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I've a new blue ??? dress. Wish you'd come down and make it for me. I don't seem to amt to anything anymore. Nellie even has to care for the chickens now. But I think maybe I can work soon. If I don't get better soon I'm going to a hospital for treatment. I can't stand it this way for ever.
Alice are you taking care of that tape worm. Don't neglect it as you will be so much better when you get rid of that. My how I wish I could see you and talk to you. I guess you can hardly read this scratching.
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Your loving Mamma
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All stirring a real June morning. Warm enough to go without fire. Lots of berries to pick and can't pick em. Little turk alright and hen has 4 chicks and 5 eggs pecked only had 9 eggs instead of 11. Wish they were all turkeys. This one seems to be a talker. Think he took it from the writing on the shell or the one who wrote it don't know which.
The road gang moves to ??? pasture just across here in a few days. A tough lot. One fellow up now in Toledo for stealing 26 mules down in Missouri and bringing them up here and working them, but they have disappeared from here and can't be found and he wont tell where they are.
Write soon
Mamma
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