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Dear Son,
Just a few lines to let you know that I am still alive. I am writing
slowly because I know that you can’t read that fast. You won’t know the
house when you come home as we’ve moved.
About your father, he has got a lovely new job. He has 500 men under
him, he cuts grass as the cemetery. Your sister Mary had a baby this
morning. I haven’t found out yet whether its a boy or a girl so I don’t
know if you’re an aunt or an uncle.
I went to the doctors on Thursday and your father came with me. The
doctor put a small tube in my mouth and told me not to talk for 10
minutes. Your father offered to buy it from him. Your uncle Patrick
drowned last week in a vat of Irish whiskey at the Dublin brewery. Some
of his workmates tried to save him, but he fought them off bravely.
They cremated him and it took 3 days to put the fire out.
It only
rained twice this week, first for 3 days then for 4 days. We had a
letter from the undertaker. He said that if the last payment on your
grandmother’s plot wasn’t pain in 7 days, up she comes.
Your Loving
Mother.
P.S. I was going to send you 5 pounds but I have already sealed the
envelope.
Made in Ireland. Measures aprox. 16 inches
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