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as to my work I get along as well as I can my steady family is 11 in number since I illegible rid of my sawmill work men I have done illegible work myself the only now & then a day ever since last Febuary I have kept Polly a spinn she has been gone 5 weeks this summer I have I thoug I should make a great deal of cloth but I illegible not quite 30 wait of flax illegible see me you can see for your selves I must own I was quite disappointed when illegible heard there was none of you a comeing to see me this fall alltho I never had ben encouraged of your coming I thought when you heard I could not come & see you I thought some of you certainly would come to see us If we want quite so smart as Polly or Lucy my affection towards you perhaps is as great as theirs is in a long time since I saw any of you & illegible perhaps it will be still longer unless you are me here things look quite dark of my coming to see you verry soon I don't know but I look too much on the dark sid but I try to keep my spirits up as well as I can I hope my boot will turn some time or other but I have hoped till I all most dispair but illegible I beat be recondciled to the will of god