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Thursday March 6 1856 Dear Cynthia

We torn -- presumably says "have" been unable to get mails or send mails for the last two weeks 
The great drifts that had shut us out from all the world a few weeks before melted and closed around us in water again cutting off all communication so we have felt quite dreary here all alone  For several days John was unable to cross the Potawatomie to fodder his cattle but some good neighbors on the other side to whom he called went up and took care of them till he could get over again, 
 We have nothing to write but about the same thing that we tell every week,  If I get able to teach this summer I can have a school to commence about