[No envelope. Elizabeth Dickey Evans, who transcribed these letters, placed this one between February and April 1901, while Janet was attending Normal School in Truro.]
Friday morn.
Dear Janet
I am trying to make Amy a shirt-waist out of that old black cloth coat with grey astrachan [tightly curled fleece of a newborn lamb] around. I have no good shirt-waist sleeve, if you can get one either from Mrs. McKay or Mrs. Archibald, it would save buying. Get me the shoes and cotton dress. The calf came last night not kittens yet. Bob went down to school one day just before it was out, and looked in the window, and said, “it’s awful dirty in there.” What a lot of ink! Are you all playing a game. And the sun was shining on one boy’s head, so he pointed to him and said “Your hair is red.” He had his sleigh with him and after school the boys pounced upon the sleigh and wrecked it considerably. Bob bit and fought, stood at bay in the shafts of his little sleigh.
In haste Alice Cairns no kittens yet.
Calf came last night heifer named daisy Young cow. Sending $12.00.