IMH 74:4 351

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Sunday November 28th

It drizzled a fog in large drops all day and made things icy for a time. My face was worse. I could barely get
any thing between my jaws and spent most of the time in bed. Alvin spent most of the day at his uncle Jacob's.
Pap staid closely in the house. I have forgotten to state that yesterday I got a letter from Frona81 that had
gone to Uncle Rip's and staid awhile. It was evidently as old in news as Grandmother's last and was written in
Frona's usualy style perhaps I should say some improvement on her former style. A card bearing a picture of
a Dutchman smoking, his belly or body being composed of an immense barrel, which she had labeled "Hancock"
caused great laughter by Uncle Rip and his family. Alvin began to answer her letter tonight.

Teaching Notes: Imagine the suffering of having a tooth abcess... and nothing to take care of it except
liniment wuth the weather sounding very yucky. You may need to explain that liniment was
something like a Ben Gay.

William Gregory's uncle's family seems to be Republican...Hancock was a Democrat.