Dec 5^th

 

            Dear Cyrus,

                                    I have been waiting to hear from you over a week. Your last letter came last week Tuesday, and I answered it right away, should have written again Sunday but thought I should hear from you the first of the week, so kept putting it off. Sometimes I thought you was coming home, the reason you did not write, but shall look for a letter today. We are all well except Cicero & he is only a little sick. Fathers potatoes are all gone the well is finished, and had 25 feet water in it, the last news. / I have been wanting to go to Salem but the going is extremely rough so I shall have to wait till it improves. I might go down on the steamboat & take the cars but that would cost too much. Cicero is willing to take the colt & drive so I can go for most nothing.

 

Mrs Pond wants to have the old stove pipe hole in the parlor opened again, says she will have it plastered up again nicely when she leaves I told her I would rather ask you first, as you might be coming home soon & if so you would want the office. Her object was to get more heat up stairs, not to put the pipe through. There is no news that I think of, and as I answered your last letter I haven't much to write. Mr McCreedy made Wallie a pair / of boots, for ten shillings, out of boot legs, they seem very good, I carried your old boots there & he said they were rather thin & he had some that he would change with me. Boys boots are from 16 to 18 shillings a pair at the store.

 

            Well the baby is teasing me so I must stop. how I should like to see you, write soon & tell me all what you are doing &c

 

            The folks all send their love to you, all the boys write home they cant spare you as they like you better than they do R & F

                                   

Good bye—

Yours in love

Hattie—

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