[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading]Templeton, Mass.,
Oct. 1, 1905.Dear Lucy:-
You won't get much of a letter to-night because I don't feel much like writing. Isn't that a good reason? I have finished my book review & think I have done about enough writing. Oh/The mail that I had last week & that has got to be answered. Monday I had a letter from Elsa Stone. I was surprised to hear from her so soon. She arrived home safely & found that her school doesn't begin till to-morrow. I wish mine didn't. Tuesday I had a letter from Auntie & one from you. Wednesday I had a souvenir postal card from Linnie & Thursday one from Auntie. You ought to feel honored because your letter is the only one that will get answered to-night.
Last Monday Bessie & I went to the train to see Linnie & her mother off. Between them they had a dress suit case, a basket of plants, Mrs. Searles' little brown bag & her black bag & one or two paper bags. Weren't they well loaded. The train left at ten minutes of two so Bessie & I had to hustle like everything to get down there. After they had gone we started rather slowly down West. As we got near we saw our car standing there & as it continued to stand we hustled up & I hastened into Garland's & got the Babies' Food for Edith & we got that ten minutes of two car. Didn't we do well? I had to get some more Babies' Food for Edith Friday so I stopped & made her a short call. Delpine [sic] was asleep but I saw the baby. It is ever so much better. It is pretty thin & small but they think it is doing well now.
Yesterday P.M. after four o'clock I watered all the plants, sprayed the roses in pots & put Hellebore on the out door roses and took up three plants besides picking two bouquets. I picked the loveliest bunch of nasturtiums to-day. There were more than would go in the catch-all & look well. I thought that was pretty well for the first of October.
Nellie & I went to walk this P.M. She wanted to go & I didn't mind very much if I went. When we came back we hunted for four leaf clovers. Wasn't that dreadful for Sunday afternoon? I think it was all perfectly correct for Frank Akers was out with us & after a while Grace Stanley joined us. We got to admiring that balsam that stands down by the gate. It is the worst looking specimen of a tree you ever laid eyes on.
We had several funny things happen in English Thursday. We had to write for a while at the beginning of the period. After a while Miss Clark told us to stop. Cowee looked up. "What stop now?" he said. "I thought you wanted us to write all we knew." Later we were talking about the Fountain of Youth. Miss Clark wanted to know who hunted after it. Cowee said Sir Walter Raleigh and Wilder De Soto. Don't you think they needed to study history? Drake sits in a corner front seat & generally faces the class & has his feet out in the aisle. Stiles went down the aile [sic] & stepped on Drake's feet. I guess Drake forgot where he was for he said "Ow" right out loud. Miss Clark of course made some remarks & told him he didn't need to have his feet out in the aisle. "Well," Drake said. "Tiles didn't need to step on them."
Are you surely coming hom[e] Friday? I am very much afraid that something will make you change your plans. Mama says that her cold is getting ready to get better. Amber seems to have lost his appetite but sends his love.
With love, X X X X X X
Molly. X X X X X X