A Christmas letter

Christmas plans: staying put, teeth trouble, and a hurt friend

2 min

Both families have asked Agnes to spend Christmas with them, but she says she will stay where she is and have a good Christmas there. She talks about a friend who hurt her back with a falling ladder, a trip to the dentist in Rice Lake for broken teeth, and asks to be sent a letter.

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What Agnes says

Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.

And so, of course, it made me too upset. I was so upset, it wasn't funny, but I got over it and I'm all right now. So they both asked me to go to them for Christmas and I will not, I'll stay right here.

I'm going to have a good Christmas from folks and here and I don't think I should go where the children are a whole bunch of them and you know what i mean what you call it her what's her name uh the one that used to be a teacher she she's taking care of her kids and uh she uh she uh she was putting away the uh ladder and the ladder fell on her and she didn't take much of it until the second day she couldn't walk so joanne took her to the place someplace here in rice lake and he straightened out her bones in the

back where she had it wrong and so she stayed in the car and joan your mother or your mother she come to see me and stuff and i had my troubles with my teeth so they were broken so somebody took me down to Rice Lake where the dentist was and so they took it and they refixed it and stuff but it is not good I what you call Rosie will have to go down to the dime store or someplace and get me some kind of a powder that I can use so I can eat because it's awfully hard for me to eat and and they

don't give a duck on about the rest of it so I well I I make it all right otherwise I'm fine so have a nice holiday and and so write to me again or send me a letter or give me the the thing so I I know.