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Jolley Family correspondence, 1887-1919

1897-03-16 Unidentified letter Page 2

down there and it most froze before we could get it to our moths.  I had quite an accident the next day after we moved I scalded myself my right hand and hip my hand is well but the other is pretty bad yet.  I couldent do much for about a week.  I (as sight?) cold and that made them worse.  how it happened when they set the cook stove up they put it on two different sets of blocks to make it high enough and one of the stove legs was broke and didn't fit in far enough and of course (illegible) too close to that one and (illegible) knock it out and and let that (illegible) down and spilt a kettle of hot water on me that I was going to mop the floor with you may believe that I did not (illegible) any more that day (illegible) came and finished (illegible) have been a worse (illegible) was bad enough

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down there and it most froze before we could get it to our moths. I had quite an accident the next day after we moved I scalded myself my right hand and hip my hand is well but the other is pretty bad yet. I couldent do much for about a week. I (as sight?) cold and that made them worse. how it happened when they set the cook stove up they put it on two different sets of blocks to make it high enough and one of the stove legs was broke and didn't fit in far enough and of course (illegible) too close to that one and (illegible) knock it out and and let that (illegible) down and spilt a kettle of hot water on me that I was going to mop the floor with you may believe that I did not (illegible) any more that day (illegible) came and finished (illegible) have been a worse (illegible) was bad enough