
i must write you a few
lines and only a few to let you know how
we are i can hardly write on account
of lameness in my right arm down toward
my wrist it has been over a week at first
i thought it was going to gather but it has not
yet but is swolen and at times pains me
quite bad but i make out to doo around
but i cant lift much with it i have rubbed
it with one a but
it dont seem to doo much
good george says i must put slippery elm
poultice but perhaps it will get better
in time but it is so bad when i make bread
and crullers
george wants them to take down
he was up yesterday and the day before
he wasent up from last saturday night
till wensday not last night but saturday week
it was so bad and such snow banks
last week one day a waggon and six horses
got stuck on the avenu the cars dident run
those was pasengers from flatbush i suppose
but they had to walk down Jeffy said they
were two hours getting out O walt it is
terrible here in the winter matt is
getting as tired of it as i am it will
not look like any thing again even in
the summer its all dug and redug between
this and the avenu great trenches it looks
like destruction ) we are all pretty well except
my arm and sis she aint very well she is
by my side asleep in the rocking chair
its very rare for me to be without
them i get very tired of them i often feel
as if i wished to be quiet if only for one
hour matty has no help so the young ones
live up here
perbasco
has put up here since
yesterday so they have it) georges horse
ran away the other day from the lumber
yard run till she got fast in a snow
drift he thinks it wont hurt her that she wont
run again she is a nice horse only 5 years old
well walt Jeff talks of coming to washington
he is going somewhere else and talks of coming
there to stay one night talks of coming next
tuesday matt says he has talked of coming
so many times and not come) for me
to not say any thing about it but i think
he will come this time maybee not tuesday
but some times during the week)
i receive your letter and money and envelopes as usual walt last wensday davis s man always brings them to me i feel so glad walt you can go to see the poor fellows in the hospital and carry them a cake i suppose its quite a treat to them good bie walt write mrs mix s address if i ever get out of the snow maybee i can call and see her
good bie again Walter with many thanks for your remembrance of your mother