anything from her folks, she had not heard until this morning she had a dispatch from the Dr that he was on his way home with Albert she was feeling very badly she feared that he was severely wounded as the Dr did not say neither did you, and she is in very poor health any way; when she got her dispatch she was so nervous and frightened that she read it wrong, that the Dr was coming with Alberts body, that overcame her so that she was feeling very miserable when I got there but she laid down and fell asleep and when I came away in the afternoon she was quite cheerful, one of her little boys met with quite a sad accident a week ago today, he was holding a horse by the halter in the yard to eat grass, when it whirled and kicked him on his left jaw and fractured it, and knocked out several teeth, poor little fellow it came very near killing him.  I do think that she is a fine little woman, I am going to take "Jerry" Tiffin's buggy tomorrow and go over to nursery Smith for strawberries for Mrs. Hull, to have for Albert when he comes; how I should love to be pre-
