Dear Sister,

Well right here I am again to say something to you all & what shall it be-- How do ye do Pa & How do you do Ma & How do you all dew no how. I wish that I could slip in on you all this pleasant afternoon & see what you are all saying & doing but as it cannot was, I can just imagine.

Well your good long letter arrived yesterday afternoon & how glad -- yes how glad we was to hear Ma was better. I was so troubled about her all through the long week that has passed. Will went to town friday night after working hard all day & I anxiously waiting his return for a letter but it came not that day & how disapointed we were. but Japs folks brought it yesterday & dropped it in the box & you just guess I sent Ross aflying. Will went to town last Monday afternoon & got your letter that you finished the friday before (dident it come through in a hurry & that give me more hopes as you said when you finished she was better. but what next will care to keep her back. it seems that what little she gains at times is always upset with something far worse every time. Oh I do wish that you could doctor with some great Dr. one that could help her & I believe that there is plenty of them that could. this Dr Addington that I told you of described Jennie Overtons feeling to her exactly & never made any examination. & the old lady was anxious for him to go & see Will Overman. he went but Will hapened to be very busy at the time. & he watched him for awhile & said that he had catarrh of the Stomach. Will has been very poorly & ant eat anything hardly. Now Mollie was telling this as Will eat dinner over there when he cut grass. & I think if there was such a Dr near you it would pay to employ him. this man makes visits to towns.

Yesterday was an awful warm day & today is all together different. it is quite cool & the wind blows from the north. there was a rain somewhere for it rained a little here in the night. it is delightful after having such hot weather. you wanted to know if we went to the baskett meeting in the grove. you will be surprised when I tell you that was the first that we had heard of it but have heard from it since. if we had went would have got a soaking before we could of got home. no the moon dident shine here. Our papers stated that it was the hardest rain at Trenton & Edinburgh of the season.

& today was Mrs Mccartys funeral. was preached at the Grove. saw Wills & his father go by. & you will wonder why we did not go. Will has been working the teams so hard in the hay & they have the distemper too. & Dick is awful poor & they have a weeks work before them. Will is through but Coble is not. We are awful tired of hard work. I have cooked for hands for the last three days & feel awful tired today & dont have any help either. I felt like I could not go.

Am very sorry too for Carrie wrote me a card telling me about it & I appreciate her kindness very much. she said she had looked for us so long & expect she will be disapointed too but you see if we had went there we wouldent have had very long to staid with them. Will finished his hay yesterday. he bought some of George Pate to put up & it seems like my work has kept me so buisy that I never sit down to rest anymore. its get beans & taters & then hunt for the ripe tomatoes for they rot as quick as they turn. & then pick the pickles for we have more then two vines this year. have just filled a five gallon jar of nice little pickles. don't know what I will do with the rest or with them I have put up but I hate to see them waste. we don 't care for very many. & its work work work -- til I just want to flyaway off. I dont know where unless its down there where you are. Where I wont have to work so hard. but all I can do is get mad at so much of it. & go out in the back yard & turn my face south & my back to the house & smoke house and walk as fast as I can towards Kan a short distance & then stop you know where & think that is as near Kan as I can get today & the next day its the same way & I never get there Eli.

late do you know this calico. I am making it now. havent had time before. will put edging on the ruffle when I get some. Net it would be so pretty for something. you know what you need.

Tell Granma that Ross & Blanch had a lemonade stand behind the cellar one day & heard him tell Blanche that hed be the lemonader & she must be the folks. & the folks holowed heres your ice cold lemonade about as well as the lemonader did. & they had a big time a calling for their stand.

Well now you watch Late & dont let him eat anymore pencils. he will be to sharp & Sue you must not drink all the ink again & think its some of our cherry wine all seasoned with rats so good.

Well Aunt Lyd is real good & does she come a horseback without a saddle too. you could loan her yours Net or dont you think so well. No-no. Well I am about to have a chill this morning. My mouth is broken out with fever sores. Now that is that a sign. & I feel awfully achefully but will have to stir around & get up the steam. you think me crazy dont you. Well in fact I do feel like a crank sometimes. Well here comes Ross with a straw colored zinia & say send this to pretty Granma but I cant. its too thick. They are pretty ones & I think of the Sunday I gathered the seed over there. Ma was sick with the headache that day.