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his winter's work here today. C. has sold him the black horse, sleigh and harness for $100.00, to be paid in work - fifty days work this winter. They have topped out the chimney and are going to have a stove borrow of Col. Lee to put in there. Our singing school is not. They have an excellent school at the Mills. I have given up going on account of my health. It is said that our "Village Master skilled to rule" is partial to his "little school" too Miss O.H. Furber. Mr. Gilman says that J.S. Ricker, who has taken Mr. Tibbet's school is not very well liked.

             When Charles goes to Bangor, which he intends to do soon, if you have got through with the Algebra, you may send it up, lest there should not be another opportunity, but if you have not done with it, keep it till you have. I am glad the folks like your school. You must try to make them like better still. Mr. Keen's folks have moved into the old house. They have not elected a Rep. I believe - they have had a multitude of town meetings, and set up "Uncle Jimmy" once or twice, but could'nt make it go. Charles has let the Oxen for two months to Mr. Monroe. By doing this and selling the horse he will save some hay to pay for lumber. He has not marketed your hay yet I believe. Aron Hill is to be married this month - he has engaged James to construct some bedsteads, worktable, etc. and Theodore Furber desires two bedsteads and two tables. We received two letters, from Ann & from Mother last week. Ann was in Boston when she wrote but was going to Warwick the next day. She had made a weeks' visit at Woonsocket, and, Mother & Eliab spent a week in Lowell. Caleb has married a step-daughter of a professor in Yale College, and is now teaching music in Philadelphia - he has applied for a situation in Boston as teacher of languages. Isaac gets a living by teaching music; pay two hundred dolls salary for singing in the Episcopal church. Enoch, Mother says, thinks it altogether too small business for him on a counting