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you some fine war, handsome worsted gloves. We will send you a inkstand the first chance - you will have some mittens & suspenders before long I guess. Ann is making you some shirts. Dont talk of cool pairs yet. you hant forgotten how to thresh em? I dont know as I have seen a mitten this six months or heard of one before. Digging potatoes is cooler work than turning out a cow of a frosty morn. Send back the my shirt the first good chance I will want it if I go to Boston. the stock if you plese is by the N.W. corner if the barn. Not so fast if you please about the our work being behind hand - we have got the pratees nearly half dug & Messrs Ellis & Nye have not begun yet. Remember the potatoes were not all dug till the ground froze up last year and it is early in October yet.
11th Eve. We have dug all the early potatoes ( Finished today) there is about 75 bushels of them. We have dug about 50 of whites. We are going to put those at the upper end of the interval in a hole there. We let the cows & horses go on the interval. We have turned the rams up over the brook at the upper end of the interval. We saw a creetur on interval this morning somewhat suspected of being a wolf. We tried to shoot him, her, or it but he, she or it ran off. Last night the sheep were scat home & wore in the little pasture west of the house in the morning.
12th Eve. Charles has been threshing & carrying to mill a bushel of wheat today. Eliab & I have been digging chenangoes. We have dug about 2/5 bushels besides the small ones. I find I have made a mistake with regard to dates. Today is Friday the 11 of Oct. 12 proper eve. We have got all the chenangoes dug. About 50 bushels. We received a letter from Almeida this week of date Sept. 29. It cheifly relates to my coming there to go in to Mr. Whipple's store as Anne wrote you in her last by Mr. Col. J. Lee Esq. In your last letter you requested me to send you a copy of my account with you. Mother asked you for an explanation. & she laughs at me. She says as long as she provides for us both there is no need. Nevertheless, being I did not wear the vest more than a week & Mother provides us all with jackets I will send you my celebrated Wedgewood ware inkstand & my comforter