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one little girls and the other children are sick now - all with the diptheria.

 We have had some comfortably warm days - today it ranis and is quite cold. The grass is quite short yet and we put the cows in nights and give them hay.
 Our plum trees are all dead - that is all but the common red plum. They became covered with black knots - we never got but a very few plums from them. Eddie thinks it is too cold here for them. Those berry bushes are also dead. I think they were killed by the rats. We have had no fruit from them for several years. Eddie removed the strawberry vines into the garden two or three years since but they have not done well - our currant and gooseberry bushes are more successful. 
 I have been waiting for Mary