Templeton, Mass.,
April 5, 1907.Dear Sister:-
I simply have no desire to write to you & I came very near forgetting but I didn't quite so "you're all right." So much has happened that I think I will begin with to-day's doings & work backward. I have been down to Cousin Minnie's this P.M. She went to Worcester Wed. on some business and so she went up & saw Cousin Esther & Cousin Emma. Cousin Esther has been just sick with a cold the past week & has had a terrible sore throat but she is gaining now. It was the hot weather that made Cousin Emma feel so much worse. Cousin M- said she looked better than she did when she saw her last and seemed to be quite cheerful. They expect that she will have an operation before long. Cousin M- said the doctors thought that there was either a growth of some kind or a sore on her left side. They thought that her trouble with her heel was caused by the same thing but of course they don't know yet what it is. At any rate the report seemed quite favorable. Gladys has grown a lot since I saw her last. Her mother is weaning her so she isn't quite as happy as she might be. She wanted "Din-din" awfully[.] Cousin Moses has been sick again this last week and has been hardly able to do his chores. He is getting better.
Yesterday I had Carrie up to spend the day & if we didn't have a circus! She didn't get here until 11:15. She went to the dentist's just before she came here & just missed the ten o'clock car. She had brought some stockings to darn for we expected to sew to-gether so when she found that she was left she took out a stocking & darned it in the dentist's office. In the P.M. we went out after some pussies. We went up the back road & found a wasp's nest. Carrie wanted that so she climbed the tree which by the way was very slender & after repeated shakings & knockings got it down. One side was badly broken but when we got home home [sic] we glued it to-gether. She expects to take it to Smith with her. We got some lovely pussies even though we did have to stand on a stone wall to get them where thee stones were so loose that the motion of cutting them made you rock back & forth. So we came home Carrie with the wasp's nest on a forked stick & I bearing as large a bunch of pussies as I could possibly hold in one hand. She sent a boxful of the best pussies to Miss Wallace's mother. We made some cream fudge that was dandy. When she didn't come on the ten o'clock car in the A.M. I hustled around & made a cake before the next car came. I tell you I hustled for I fooled around a while & went up in town before I begun. Auntie & I were so tired that we didn't do the dishes & imagine the amount I did this A.M. all alone. Wed. afternoon I went down to Grandma's Aunt Ada was there. The Gage's are going the last of this week & as of course there were considerable going on at the parsonage Gladys was over with Aunt Mattie. I stopped to see Mrs. Ward. Her little girl was cutting four teeth & was just sick and miserable. She is a pretty little thing. Auntie sends her love. Mama had a poor day yesterday. Her heart was off but she is much better to-day[.]
With love,
Molly