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and do come all of you, it is your duty to yourselves & to me | and do come all of you, it is your duty to yourselves & to me | ||
besides we have came to no settlement yet only talked over | besides we have came to no settlement yet only talked over | ||
the [[?]] C. cant seem in any hurry about it we have | the [[prchse? - purchase?]] C. cant seem in any hurry about it we have | ||
only skirmish'd a little (in Soldier phrase) - he is | only skirmish'd a little (in Soldier phrase) - he is | ||
doubtless perfectly willing that I should have all I need & wanted be if he had | doubtless perfectly willing that I should have all I need & wanted be if he had | ||
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me & it would of course more on you younger ones I have often thought | me & it would of course more on you younger ones I have often thought | ||
of it and deplore'd it - he has been more tried, sweaty, tired, (owing to | of it and deplore'd it - he has been more tried, sweaty, tired, (owing to | ||
be sure in part, at least, to his constitutional defects of character | be sure in part, at least, to his constitutional defects of character) | ||
than any body you can think of - in the first place he ought | than any body you can think of - in the first place he ought | ||
to have been content with his farm if he had not bought the east | to have been content with his farm if he had not bought the east | ||
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tho' there is considerable reason to fear that I shall live to extreme | tho' there is considerable reason to fear that I shall live to extreme | ||
old age for Mrs. Goldsbury used to say the Stevens never die. | old age for Mrs. Goldsbury used to say the Stevens never die. | ||
Can't Ann leave her school Friday morn and so come up in the afternoon | Can't Ann leave her school Friday morn and so come up in the afternoon | ||
don't put of coming I want you and Eliab should come because so that I can | don't put of coming I want you and Eliab should come because so that I can | ||
scold at you about | scold at you about matters and things - about your meals you perhaps might | ||
with [[?]] be admonish'd as well as he | with [[profinity?]] be admonish'd as well as he | ||
Latest revision as of 18:26, 25 November 2021
Milo June
I have an opportunity to send to the village & will just say that if it convenient for them, Almeda wants the girls to get her a mourning tab to wear in, her Bonnet. Our folks want a few yards of Crash, and some yard wide Crash linen, or low & linen or something that will do for cheese strainer we can whiten it and do come all of you, it is your duty to yourselves & to me besides we have came to no settlement yet only talked over the prchse? - purchase? C. cant seem in any hurry about it we have only skirmish'd a little (in Soldier phrase) - he is doubtless perfectly willing that I should have all I need & wanted be if he had the means if he had to furnish it out of his own property & I can't think he is naturally very much more covetous than other, but there has been such a concatentation of circumstances that all have a tendency to promote a saving parsimonious disposition that I wonder that any of us are tolerable in that respect. I know that it has had a great influence on me & it would of course more on you younger ones I have often thought of it and deplore'd it - he has been more tried, sweaty, tired, (owing to be sure in part, at least, to his constitutional defects of character) than any body you can think of - in the first place he ought to have been content with his farm if he had not bought the east lot nor that mill nor the up river lot it seems as if he might have lived much easier & happier but his fault is to be always grasping after too much - I guess we can come to some accommodation about matters (by the way it would have been far better if it had been, done last winter as I wanted) for I don't care much how it is done I am not afraid but what I shall have all I deserve the short time I have to stay it may be very short tho' there is considerable reason to fear that I shall live to extreme old age for Mrs. Goldsbury used to say the Stevens never die.
Can't Ann leave her school Friday morn and so come up in the afternoon
don't put of coming I want you and Eliab should come because so that I can scold at you about matters and things - about your meals you perhaps might with profinity? be admonish'd as well as he