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4 to continue in the care and necessary labor of living on a farm, and if they move into a town they might as well move
into Phillips if it suits them as anywhere else. My news has run out and I can not write anything else that will interest
you so I will close by asking you to write to sometime to Your youngest Brother. 1 Rocky illegible Wis Dec 29/78.
Dear Sister. I do not kiss a illegible ; blackened out have been somewhat tardy illegible ; blackened out execution of my
pro illegible ; blackened out to you but I will try to illegible ; blackened out rectify my tardiness by the illegible of
views.? First of all I wish you a very Happy New Year and hope that you spent a very Merry Christmas illegible ; blackened
out Our Christmas here at home was quite merry though with not? very much of es illegible ; blackened out spirit it at home
by ourselves? with a a oyster supper in the evening. At present we are enjoying