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just as it happens, last Friday, the man I had engaged to shell my corn came on & we commenced work, but I can't hardly tell you what a disappointment awaited me. The corn looked well on the outside but when we commenced to shell it we found so much of it that the kernel was stained that we felt there was no use of shelling as it would not sell in Market. I stopped the man from shelling & paid him two dollars for his trouble in fixing up his machines & spending two days, himself man & team in coming out & going back & bid him go on his way rejoicing. I then had 3 teams load up our corn & take it into Kent where they sold their loads at 58 cents to a man who had hogs to feed. I sent in another load which was sold yesterday at 50 cents. It cost 10 cents a bushel to haul it. I would have been glad to have sold it all at 50 cents & hauled it to Kent but could find no one to buy at any price as they [left-hand side] Remember me with much love to Mr. Osgood & Mary. How is Mr. Osgood's health now. Does Mary keep well. Is little Mary as fat as ever, did she & sister know each other.