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each a set of furs we bought Nettie's for Hattie I do not care very much about having any should get along very well without but the doctor has made up his mind that he wishes to buy me some furs, so I make no objection. The price will probably be somewhere between 30 & 50 dolls. I have one winter dress to make a piece of which I will send, Nettie has one like it has hers already made; I bought them in Detroit. We have made a change of help lately were alone a few days. Our little Katy showed herself rather self-willed & important did not get up in the morning & could not tend the furnace, yet she wanted full wages 1.25 per week, so we found another girl & I told her she was not well enough & strong enough do do our work. the fall cleaning & the additional work made by sickness. Katy felt mortified & troubled at being dismissed but could not complain; we like the exchange; an Irish girl speaking good English intelligent, & well trained. she has been in this country but three years & has lived that time in a wealthy French family in Philadelphia. Knows how to do; she had been here but three weeks when she was taken with ague & has gone to her brother's for a week or two & meanwhile Katy ( who had not found a place) was glad to come back & stay till our girl Marg is well enough to return. Nettie has two sisters Irish the younger she takes care of Charly who lover her dearly. Nettie's health is better than a while ago. Isaac is very well, driving about has been at work quarrying stone by the river bank for his walks