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Ma and Pa kettle were yust ordinary hill-billy folk but they had learned to read and write. One day while at the Country Store they saw a newspaper and Pa was glancing through it. He saw an advertisement for a compleye bathroom set on sale for half price and showed it to Ma.

Neither Ma or Pa knew what a bathroom set was but thy thought it seemed a good deal and decided to send for it. In time the bathroom set arrived and after they had put it to use Ma wrote to her sister to tell her all about.

THE LETTER

Dear Sara: I reckon you' member me telling you that Pa and me had ordered a bathroom set.Well it has came and you should see it. The fust box we opened was real big and had a big white thing in it, like a trough but it had a hole in the bottom. It wasn't much good fer a trough if'n it had a hole in it but then we found a little, hard, round thing that was chained to it. We thought it something that could run or fly else why would it be chained. Pa was fooin' around with it and that little hard thing fitted in the hole. Now we know what it is fer, a trough for the animals to drink at and it works fine. Pa thinks it's great 'caus when he wants to empty it he just pulls out the hard thing and it runs out itself.

The next box was a littler one and was somethin' like the dish we wash in but too heavy to through out. It had a hole in it and a little hard thing chained to it like the trough. So now wo uses it to wash in and we pulls out the hard thing and it empties itself. We like it fine and it is much better then pitching out the water, 'pecially if the wind blows wrong.Then there's a thing to wash your foots in. You washes one foot at a time and if foots are dirty, like Pa's get when he is workin' in the field, jou jest push a button and the dirty water runs out and clean water comes in to wash the t'other foot. Pa thinks it gread. 'Course you gotta keep the thing at the back full of water else it don't work.

Then there was two things we jest couldn't figger. They was puzzlers. They was of wood and one had a hole in it. It looked as it had been round but got pulled out of shape. We just couldn't figger that 'til I held it over our Pa's picture, you know, the one he had took when he went to city that time. It jest fitted it so good we fastened them to each other and nailed it to the wall. Our Pa looks jest great hangin' there.

The other one was kind of like the same shape but it was littler and din't have no hole. It was a puzzler 'til Pa said, "Ma, why don't you us it when you cuts up stuff and when you cut bread. It will stop you cuttin' up the tabke like you do." So that's what I do now and it sure saves the table.

Ain't it wonderful how these new things help and we is the only ones out here as has one.

Your lovin' sister Annie.