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nearly all their living carried from
here now; flour, kerosine - well
I'll not begin to innumerate or
specify each article the list is
two long. We cook beans again.
Maud irons the clothes. I sow
flower seeds, Japanese Morning glories,
Verbinas, astors, Pansys. R went
to Samy's for a bag of oats came
from there, here. had an egg in
her hand and two apples in her apron.
The egg she had picked up in
the barn yard but at first pretended
she had brought it from home to
buy a yeast cake with. The apples
Aunt Ruth had sent to grandmother.
She blowed around awhile about
Jen & old Mary Anne said she
had just mailed a letter
to Will giving him to plainly understand
she is not going to endure this thing
any longer. I gave her beans, cake,