Mon. Mar. 29, 1897 Wea. nice

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The snow has commenced to melt now and hope it will keep on. I heard a meadow lark and some crows. “Puttered” around with house work most all day. In the evening Cora and I put in good four hours in grammar and I am sure we both learned a lot.

Flo and cousin Jack went down town. Flo met Burt Bogru (Lu’s old fel” and he was drunk, he gave her quite a scare.
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NOTES
1. "Bogru" seems unlikely to be the actual name but that's what the word looks like as Hilda has written it.
2. The mixed up punctuation (parenthesis, quotation mark) are Hilda's.
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