I like to broke my neck there a week ago
last Sunday night, when our minister was away. Caught my foot in a
hole in the carpet, and a little more and wouldn't have gone
headlong. So, it's: "Why, I've been meaning for more than a year,
to call on you, Mrs. -- . Mrs. -- (Let me look at my list. Oh,
yes) Mrs. Cooper, but we've had so much sickness at home - you
know my husband's father is staying with us at present, and he's
been in very poor health all winter -and when it hasn't been
sickness, it's been company. You know how it is. And it seemed
as if I - just - could - not make out to get up your way. What a
pretty little place you have! So cozy! I was just saying to Mrs.
Thorpe here, it was so seldom you saw a really pretty residence
in this part of town. We think that up on the hill, where we
reside, you know, is about the handsomest . . . . Yes, there are a
great many wealthy people live up there. The Quackenbushes are
enormously wealthy. I was saying to Mrs. Quackenbush only the
other day that I thought the hill people were almost too exclusive
. . . . Yes, it is a perfectly lovely day . . . . Er - er -
We're soliciting for the Firemen's Tournament - well, not for the
Tournament exactly, but the Ladies' Aid are going to give a
dinner that day for the Carpet Fund and we thought perhaps you
'd like to help along .
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