
my letter is rather late this week i waited thinking i should have some word either from matty or hanna but i have no word from either george had a letter from jeff the other day he said matty was writing to mother but i have not received any as to han i dont expect any i thought when the box went maybee she would write a few lines i requested her particularly to write if only a few lines and that we would expect her to come this spring but i have not heard nothing since heyde wrote they got the box) sometimes i get so worried about her that it makes me quite unhappy

i was sorry walter you
have them bad spells with
your head it must be
very bad indeed) there
is a kind of linement
called cloroform linement
it dont affect one in the
least that is to stupefy but
it is thought to be good
for the neuralghy and
rheumatism
i got a 50 cent
bottle and am rubbing my
knee and hand with it
whether it will doo me
any good or not i cant
tell yet i am pretty
well now full as well
as usual) george has got
a bad cold which has
made him almost sick
but he has gone out to day
he is not at work just now
but has been) it is snowing
at present like winter it
thundered and lightened
last night and rained
so we must take it as it
comes we have just got
a ton of coal so we
shant freese O walt how
many mornings i think
of you when we
have buckwheat cakes
how i wish you had
some) the folks here
goes on just the same
dont seem to mind
the loss of their father
much
my love to mr and mrs oconor
