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We have considerable butter ahead and shall be only too glad to furnish you. For the past two weeks we have just gained. Our family is so small. Keep your cloth wet in salt water. Do not let it dry. I would put a plate over any crock. Did we eat up all your cookies? I fear we did . I have a leg of mutton and a beef's heart to cook to morrow would like to divide with you. There come the children from Church. Here we have talked in the bed room for more than an hour and I must begin as usual to send them out. If I send a jar of butter by the boys as I may, if we can get it in the Satchel you had better put some salt on the cloth and then pour a little water on, to dissolve it. Butter will keep better with brine over it. Yours with love, Mother.