Templeton, Mass.
Sept. 20, 1905.Dear Lucy:-
Not much of a letter to-night but just enough to wish you a happy birthday. I hope that the year will [be] a pleasant one for you as a school teacher. I have some handkerchieves for you here at home. It is to be hoped that your stamp will be found by the time you arrive in Templeton so you can take them back. I am not sending them because I thought they would be of little use to you as long as they were not stamped. Carrie came back to school Monday. She was worse Sat. & they had the doctor who pronounced it tonsilitis and quite a hard case of it. She is still pretty hoarse and is get [sic] dreadfully tired a school. [sic] We have all felt full of mischief to-day so things have been lively. I tickled Bessie's legs until she didn't know what to do. In return she threw her strap over my head & so roped me in to my seat. Then we had a tug of war with the strap. Miss Clark has changed the seats of some. The room wasn't big enough to hold us all so all who had any back work to make up & were making it up were sent off to Room 9. Poor Bessie had to drop Algebra last year so she has to make up two periods this year. She had her choice between Room 9 & a chair down front in Room 1 & she decided to stay is [sic] Room 1 but is storming about her seat. I have Crabtree back of me & Gregory beside me so I may have lively time. I appear in rhetoricals Oct 11. (Woe! Woe!) It has got to be prose, written by meself. (More Woes!) Book Reviews are due Oct. 2. Mabel Titterton showed us girls this little piece which she cut out of a paper.
Mrs. Somebody asked her son if he would stay at home alone for a little while & be good. (I guess that's the way it was.) He said he would be good if she would give him five cents. She told him that he wasn't any son of hers if he wasn't good for nothing. I thought that was pretty good. Our men got second prize at the muster in Westminster & they felt so good that they didn't know what to do. They beat Gardners & that pleased them most of all. Arthur Greenwood went to-day. Bessie & I generally go up through town so we got up to Heywoods just as the train came in
s. So we saw him off & had the last view of him that people this way will [have] for a while. But I guess he will be home often. It is most six so I have got to stop. All my thoughts of good times are settled on two weeks from Friday night.With lots of love,
X X X X X X X X Molly X XP.S. I haven't time to read this over so you may find lots of mistakes