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	July 5, 1917.
	          I will now resume where I left off--- Hello Stella  You
	darned old fat thing. Id like to grab that hind end of yours and
	pinch it black and blue--Your husband  said I could--Mary Adyce
	Now  commonly known as " Billie" much to  her mothers disgust 	says
	" Aunt Tedda give me Dat   fork" Only she says fork something 	like
	  a southern gentleman says it only a little broader, and when she
	says it , it sounds so much like an unprintable word that  it makes
	her mother blush, and ME too.' She  says her name is Mary Addyce Beddy
	Im making a Tom boy out of her, and Margaret has a fit Ive nick
	 named her Billie, and that makes Margaret mad because it sounds too
	 boyish. Ha! Mary A-- says . Come here Dady till I slip you a kis--
	Ha! She  does the funniest things you ever heard of .  She goes  all
	 day with one slipper on and one off, carrying it under her arm.
	What the big idea is Ive never been able to learn, she has the  Ice
	cream parlors spotted a mile . She wants to go down to the chinks to
	eat. I think that she likes to watch em.  She loves Graham crakers
	and drinks milk to beat the band. We get good milk here better than
	in Spokane. We have our house  fixed up fine now and think will like
	it OK, We are going to try and take in the round up this  Fall.
	     Margaret and I were talking yesterday about what a pleasant  time
	we had last fourth of July, on our trip to Endicott, we were laughing
	about it, we sure did have a good time  that day in spite of the
	rain and that  five mile run I took to get to work. Ha.  we spent
	yesterday at home fixing  screen doors.  Ha , We are getting to be
	regular fiends at fixing up  houses. And By gad there is a lot of
	pleasure in fixing up a place to live in, putting your own individuality
	into it, I think that it realy makes you more contented, than just to
	move in and set up the furniture. No house that I live in is complete
	now until I do a little bit of carpenter work on it. Ha! No it isnt
	a porch this time. Ha! Margaret  has the finest ideas about fixing
	a house that I ever heard.  The only trouble is getting me to work
	long enough to fix it up. Ha. Margaret is getting now  though, so
	that she does most of the heavy work, such as carrying out tubs
	of water, sawing the wood, hoeing the spuds,  beating the carpets
	etc. Therby letting me get some much needed rest---Thats for Bammys
	benefit--- Im nutty to see Bill wish that hed take a fool  notion
	to run down here for a while, tell him, in spite of his training at
	WSC that I can flop him Ha!It would be a hell of a joke if I couldnt
	 wouldnt it.
	     What I started this letterfor was to ask Stella to see if she could
	find that old bathing suit that I left hanging around there somewhere
	 and if she can to send it down, its that old red trimmed one  I got
	from Bill I think that I left it in the Hotel somewhere. Id tie a
	rag around my leg or use a postage stamp but I dont know these ladies
	here very well.