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you tell of being abed apart of the forenoon, have you not been as well as normal________I haven't anything very special you know to keep me in one place more than another so if any of you are not well at any time and I can be useful to you I can start my stumps in a that time if you but let me know but if all are well____it seems to me I had better be here at present but I shall probably write again soon____shall have a letter from Joseph tomorrow I guess___Do you write again soon & tell us how whether you ((unclear)) "safe and sound". Angella Everett has got a son so has Mrs Hicken & Mrs M.((unclear)) & I don't know how many more___Mrs Hicken has gone on the river to work the ((unclear)) before her babe was a fortnight old-they have absolutely nothing to eat except what C ((unclear)) they have had about all his wages now and he doesn't again to pay him any till winter they will not move away from Almeda this winter & I don't see hardly how they are going to live till next fall to say nothing about building a house.