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Show -13- John \Vent back to .st. Joseph to stay until Ma goes off, then he will come up anu get me. He took ono of Ma's cows (Spot). It 1s a nice 11;arm dny, the birds arc all happy and singing. Ma und brothers and sisters started for Old Ifexico on :r~-uy . 22nd, 1900, -. ..i th Uncle Eub Smithson and I am left here without th0m. lt is quite hard to leave th..::m and be so far away from them. I have been so lonosome and homesick I could hardly stt:Jld 1 t, but my husbu.nd was q_ui te a comfort · to ms. ·'.-i e stfarted for our home in St. Josoph the day .Ma left for t:exico. It was a long dreary day. r, e fetched Daisy (!::a.'s covJ) down and liad to travel very slov,. i ·ay 25 - Well I have been sick th:::: last t\'iO ·o·r three days ·~ii th the sore throat and h-c.:ndacho. I wash,~d what fe w clothes we had to have today. June 21, 1900, It has be;;n quite a whila sinc3 I wrote any ,. . so I thought I VJ Du.ld write so~ e to day. John v;as c~ui to sick last w00k v.i th the lagrippe, I guess it was. :;;e haven• t h~ard ~.-hether ~a hns got to Kexico or not, but I think sh~ has. ~ell they intend huvin~ the Scpt0mber conference hero thiu !'all so I am quite busy preparing for it. I want to get my co.rpat done before thut time. The wind is blor;ing today und I um washing. mohn is \'jorking in the fiald •• December 23 , . 1900. It has been a g ood rauny months sine e I have \1ritten any and a great many things have trunspired during that tima. ,,·e have had a nurnber of letters from :/:a and the follrn since thdy arrived at t.l:1c;;i1· new home. 'l'hey got there June 15, 1900. ·rhey seem. to like the placcl very well . :1.nd climu te. It is a g ood heal thy one. They try to encourage us to cone . Of course it \'ii 11 be q_ui te hard for them t~ .c1ake a living for a wh ila. Confer0nce has passed. ;~e had such a g ood time! I h ave 2JJ t my caryat done and down, but sincd th3n we rrnve been b e. ck to .I' |
