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on the earth & I don't know
I may have a doz. before
I have enough. Ethel has
curls that fall over her shoulders,
and people go into ecstasies
over them. You know how
I always admired curls and
now I have them. She can
sing and can play chords
on the piano. Learned them
herself, but she is naughty
as other people's children, I
guess. When baby was three
wks. old, Ethel took the whooping
cough and we have had a
siege of it. Don't talk of my
time to write when you
get the greatest gift of God,
two babies of your own. Then
you will know what work
is with a house to care for
and social duties crowding
on you. Last Sunday, I almost