Tommy's Letters
by J.W. Foley
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Appletown, December 1, 1905.
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Dear Grandma:
I have often thought of you in the past year but you know how busy boys have to be to keep all the chores
done and go to school. We do not get much time to write letters. But the other day I was thinking how kind you
had always been to us boys and it was a shame I do not write oftener. |
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So today I sat right down after I came
from school to write you a good, long letter and let you know that I often think of you even if I do not write.
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The ground here is all white with snow which makes us think that it will soon be Christmas again. I suppose you do not care so much for Christmas now as you did when you were a little girl. Mamma says that after folks grow up they do not care so much for it except to make the boys and girls happy by giving them something that they want. It must be awful nice to send a sled or a pair of skates or a tool chest to a boy and then sit on Christmas day and think how happy he is. If all of us did that what a bright world it would be!
I suppose though that when folks grow up they have so very many things to think about they forget to send things, when they mean to send them all the time but it slips their mind. It isn't that they can't afford it or don't want to but they don't just happen to think about it until it's Christmas day and then it is too late. And then they must feel awful sorry to think how happy it would have made some little boy if they had sent something but they didn't.
I have an idea Eddie Brooks' Grandma is going to send him a sled for Christmas. I don't know what makes me think so, but it seems to me I heard it somewhere. I guess I can make my old one do for another year. One of the runners is broke but I think I can get it fixed. It won't be very safe though.
Dear Grandma, I hope you are having a good winter and your rheumatism don't bother you very much. Often wish I was there to carry out ashes for you and do the heavy work but I have to go to school so I will grow up and be a credit to you all. You know I am named after Grandpa, which makes me all the more anxious to grow up well.
With much love from us all,
Your affectionate grandson
Tommy |
To Uncle Bill...
To Aunt Lizzie...
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