[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading]Dear Lucy:-
There is nothing to write so I will put a mess of words to-gether. Will that do? I went out sliding Friday and Saturday. Saturday Ruth and I and "the children" went up to the Hale's where there was some lovely ice. We tried to teach Dewey and Leslie to slid[e] on their feet but they each fell down and "howled." Afterwards I got Dewey so that he would go quite nicely if I held his hand. Every time he went down he would say, "I went down wrong side up."
In the afternoon Ruth and I played with our little dolls. Ralph does not go until Tuesday. We walked home with Linnie from the store Saturday night and Linnie said she gave him some good advice which he promised to follow. Was the fudge melted by the time you got there? Linnie has taken four pictures with her camera. She took one out in the pasture, another of her mother under a willow, one of her mother in front of their house and Bertie Cobleigh told [sic] one of Linnie. She saved the other two for Gene but she said she shouldn't dare to take them because it was not clear.
Gardners beat in football five to nothing. Helen told me that Gene and Stanley Nolton and some others got put out of the game for slinging. There is a Vesper to-night and I guess I shall go.
With Love,
Mary.