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special care last summer. When Jennie went with Mrs. Thomas to Floyd and I have felt it my duty to look after them and their doings every time I have been up here since. One day we had Jane & her family with their guests to tea we had a very pleasant time. It was a nice day so they could be in the garden and hammock which is the centre of attraction on a hot day. It swings under the maples and has a platform laid underneath which now is covered with the hemlock boughs we brought from the grove after the picnic. For tea we had good bread & butter pressed beef. The platter garnished with curled lettuce in place of parsley of which we had none, and the lettuce has a pretty affect, pickled beans, canned peaches cottage cheese fruit & white layer cake with frosting which Anna made, with a little of my help. lovely molasses cookies Mrs. Williams handiwork, tea and water from the "North west corner of the well." After supper we had a good deal of music & some games. "black art" &c Sam has a fine voice and is fond of singing and plays some his own accompaniments. Miss Florence Perry also sings & plays and Ettie sings & Clara & myself altogether we had quite a choir -- Ettie, Bertha & Florence went home Friday. Yesterday Jane, Frank, Clara, Sam & I went to cousin Charlie to spend the day. The folks are pretty well. Though Annie is not looking as well as she did a year ago, is a little thin or I might say a good deal so -- her face is quite peeked but she says she is much better than she was a while ago. Eddie went to Maggies yesterday to preach for them to day he wrote one new sermon from the text "He that believeth shall not make haste." he had the readings of it. is is a good sermon, and he has a good voice to deliver it.

sideways: Thursday A.M. I'll not wait any longer for the rest of the folks they are so "poky" Affect'y Jennie