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lace and will begin on the roof to-morrow. Bill is a perfect glutton for work. Speaking of gluttons-we've got a cook. A perfect gem of a coo

hair smooth. She handles the King's English with the same respect and grace she does a fork, and her speech is very marked because of the contrast between it and the we uns and you uns and you allses of the ordinary mountaineer. She has lived ever since her father's death with Aunt Mandy, a regular old mountain character who looks as though she might have stepped out of one of John Fox

osh, who is twelve, I think, have scratched a living out of their "clarin'" wi

l and shared her corn pone and drippings with a heart of charity. Gwen is surely making up to her now for all her kindness as she does all the housework for her foster mother and all kinds o

h-but good old Aunt Mandy has endowed him plentifully with a keen wit and as good and kind a heart as she herself has. Mayb

art a garden but there are lots of things that will come in mighty handy for you when you have a camp full of boarders. This was Gwen's suggestion. Aunt Mandy and Josh are enlarging their garden with a hope of selling things to you and they are also planning to sell you milk. I say all right to that, provi

ood for in times of war. I did think right seriously of enlisting with the Canadians and going over to help the Allies, but somehow I have a feeling I won't butt in on Europe's troubles but wait for one of our own which is sure to turn up sooner or later. In the meantime, thanks to you girls, we work so hard in the day time that when

p, he has lost no more sleep on the subject. One thing that makes us work so hard is that we feel that as soon as we get the place habitable you will com

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and in such detail. I spent yesterday afternoon with the Carter girls and Douglas read me your last

e Englishman die of T. B.? If he did, no power on earth will make me sleep in that cabin. The daughter no doubt has inherited the disease from her parent and is this moment stirring the dread germ into your batter cakes.

d," will come to me until it is time to go to the mountains. It will be quite a care for me, but I do not forget that my mother, your grandmother, was brought up in their grandfat

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ds delightful. As for your butting in-you know you couldn't do that. If you think Josh and the little English girl would be good ones to have for the Week-End Boarding Camp, why you just engage them. We are so inexperienced that

as she wants to go to the war zone as Red Cross nurse. We had to turn that down as Bobby will be about all we can manage in the way of kids. She only want

ery strict chaperone, their mothers are willing. Mr. Lane and Dick, the two young men in Father

en has decided that her schooling just now is of very little importance since she has no idea of going in for college, so she has simply quit; but she is very busy, busier than any of us perhaps. She is learning all the co

rest too heavily on any one of us. Nan and I are trying it and on Saturday I am to serve the family a dinner under cook's directions. Helen, of course, scorns Dr. Wright's suggestion and Lucy says she won't learn anything

snakes to go to the mountains. I have found her a good home and next week she leaves us. Oscar says he can cook but he has lived with us, as Lucy says, since before we were born, an

he store room will be large enough for a quantity of provisions, so we are ordering everything by the barrel, except pepper, of course. It saves

n the country chickens were what we and all the other boarders clamored for. I want to have fried chicken on my menu that I am to learn to cook, but they are

o good of her to go with us. I just know she hates it and we must all of us try to make things as easy for her as possible. Will the cabin be comfort

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m. At first he lay so quiet and slept so much that a strange dread filled my heart. The young surgeon on board, who is a friend of Dr. Wright, assured me that sleep was the best thing for him, but while he slept, I would get so lonely that I could hardly stand it. I had time to think much of what a poor wife I have been to him and foolish mo

see that you were well taken care of. As for money,-why, you don't need much cash and our credit at the shops is perfectly good, and you can get what you need. If you summer in the mountains, which is wha

our clothes, too, and do up your lace collars and keep your boots cleaned. Keep the other servants in town on full pay and be sure that they have plenty of provi

Your poor father talks a great deal of you and wants to go over incidents of your chi

him implicitly, and now that your father is so much better, I know that his treatment was exactly the right thing. This young sur

s well cooked and everything is spotlessly clean. They have room for only thirty passengers on this boat as it is entirely gi

en my dear children are just dream children. I believe that is the state of mind that Dr. Wright wanted your father to attain. I think he has atta

news too small to interest us and you must tell us what you are doing and all the doings of your friends. Give

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bunglars or robers. Plese tell my muther that i aint never seed any lady yet what is so nice as she Is. I helped dr. Right mend a tior yestiddy. it war a puctuashun an speakin of them things I hope you and muther is noticing how i am a usin punctuashuns in my letter? sumtime i Am goin to make a joak to dr. Right bout that whin he runs over a broaken botle, i aint quiet sho how i will uze it but i can bring it in sumhow. Did you all no that we air po now! i is goin to dress in ovarawls and aint never goin to wash no more when onct we gits in the mauntings. they is a boy up there what never washis an lewis S

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months. Now I am so busy that it is growing much easier for me. Even Josh says he misses you, too, but I think h

serve in the capacity of cook and gardener. I, of course, am the cook. I find I can apply the knowledge that you have imparted to me at school, and the young gentlemen are very kind

emen, and now the horror of the cabin has passed from me. I believe I would not even mind being there at night, but Josh says he is afraid of haunts. Of course he ex

had ever been loving to me. I do wish they liked to wash more than they do, though. I try to keep Aunt Mandy's cabin clean and she likes it now that she does not have to do it herself. I set the table

lady is the most beautiful of some sisters, the Misses Carter, who are coming up here to be the mistresses of this camp. I am very eagerly awaiting their arrival. I am to be employed regularly by them, so Mr. Somerville has just informed me, and I am going to make a great deal of money, enough to enable me to buy the books I need and have some warm clothes for next winter and to pay for my schooli

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