You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.

Let me give you an example: The kid on the street is ____ soccer
The answer to this example can be: playing
Here is why: This is the original sentence 'The kid on the street is playing soccer' So, we have correctly predicted the missing word to be 'soccer'

OK. solve this:
old enough to be of some use in doing chores right off and young enough to be trained up proper we mean to give him a good home and schooling we had a telegram ____ missus alexander spencer today the mail man brought it from the station saying they were coming on the five thirty train tonight
Answer:
from