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no great misfortune and withall they know how to use the things of this life as not abusing I trust - I was very glad of a little advise you gave her a while ago about reading. I think she is rather too much for work if indeed she is not just exactly right as I am very apt to think her. She has a mind very capable of improvement. She ought not to neglect it perhaps she does not. But I have thought that he is a little too apt to feel that she cant spare time to read.

  You know it was very dry last summer & the corn or any other crop anything else dd not come up very well where Turnips did come up too much & pull'd em up and beans planted them & he had over a 100 bushels of those he transplanted and watered every one 2 or 3 times - Joseph told him he wouldn't get pay for his labor but he think he has 
 Charles works very hard (like the patient ox) (beside he had a broken rib so lame he couldn't do much else) from early morn to late dewy eve gets nothing to read hardly now he has no boy not hir'd man - is losing his taste for reading I tell him his eyes begin to fail & that hinder him some about reading.
  I wish I had some good Ink - this is so pale and bad I dont believe you can read half of it & tis no matter if you dont for it isn't worth reading.
                                                                                                                       good night my Dear Son

20th I intended to send this by todays Mail but it was not convenient. How it does rain and blow last night and today

  You did not tell us what you went to Boston for -- Are you likely to lose your wages by the poverty of the R.R. corporation