[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading]Templeton, Mass.
June 5, 1904.Dear Lucy:-
I don't feel at all inclined to write to you but I suppose that you will insist. We got your letter Sat. morning & I haven't but just had time to read it & it is after seven o'clock Sun. night. Isn't that terrible? Carrie came up and spent the day yesterday. She played and sung for a while and did it just lovely. She had never seen but one of the pieces before. We played words and sentences where she beat and croquet where I beat most of the time so you see that we evened things up. In the afternoon we went down to Bessie's. You ought to have seen us sitting on the ground eating pippins and then a drove of cattle came along!! but Charlie and Earl were driving them so it was all right. Bessie and her cousin Carrie and I went up on the Big Rock in the pasture's [sic] and visited the "Devil's Cave" which is just under it. Then we went over to the Library and went up into the Museum upstairs. There area good many queer things there: some knives, forks and spoons that were taken from Libby Prison after the War; a spinning wheel; a flax wheel; some stones shells and pieces of wood; a wooden canteen that was carried by Moses Leland Jr. and a lot of other things. (also some pieces of wood that were in the old church) Among them was an old gun that was so heavy we could hardly lift it. How the men ever fought with them is more than I can see. Then we watched a ball game for a while. Carrie stayed to supper because the ball team were going down on the car & she didn't care for their company[.]
A week ago Saturday we had a L.A. H. meeting to see what we could do for those families that were burnt out at Lamb's City. We decided to make a quilt for each family that needed them (that was 4) and to make them of long strips of calico, not patchwork and to go over to the chapel & tie them yesterday & to invite the ladies around here to go but on account of Mrs. Bourn's death we decided
notto wait until next Sat. Wasn't Mr. Hanson provoking. He came when I was at school so I didn't C. Arthur Hanson. I made another drawing of Karl Fri. and had fairly good luck. He behaved pretty well. When I had got through with him he raced out into the sitting-rom and pushed the screen in a window so as to get at Russel & a little girl who were out side. The window went down on his arm. It didn't break it but I guess it hurt pretty badly. I should rather like to know how it is to-day. Do you suppose that I can write on "Cricket on the Hearth"?X X X X X X X X X X X X X X With love, X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X X Molly. X X X X X X XI have been breaking the Sabbath to-day and have done all of my studying instead of going to church.
The new minister has a son at Dartmouth!!!!!!!!! So you must prepare to capture him this summer.
Only ten more days of real school!!!!!!!!!