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New York Mills March 21st My dear Aunt Doubtless you think it strange that we have not answered either of your letters ere this, but as Margarett and myself are both in the factory to work, we have no time but evenings to write. my work is picking cloth it is very trying for the fingers and it is with some dificulty that I guide a pen after working all day. Mother has been very sick with a fever, she is much better now, so that she does her own work. Margarett has had a very hard cough all winter but she has done her