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Milo June

I have an opportunity to send to the village & will just say that if it convenient for them, Almeda wants the girls to get her a mourning tab to wear in, her Bonnet. Our folks want a few yards of (unclear), and some yard wide (unclear) linen, or low & linen or something that will do for cheese strainer we can whiten it and do come all of you, it is your duty to yourselves & to me besides we have came to no settlement yet only talked over the preachermans courtsean in, any hurry about it we have only (unclear) a little (in a soldier phrase) - he is doubtless perfectly willing that I should have all I need & wanted be if he had the means if he had to furnish it out of his own property & I can't think he is naturally very much more cautious than other, but there has been such a (unclear) of circumstances that all have a tendency to promote a saving (unclear) disputation that I wander that any of us are tolerable in that respect. I know that it has had a great influence on me & it would of course more on you younger ones I have often thought of it and deplore'd it - he has been more tried, sweaty, tired, (owing to be sure in part, at least, to his constitutional defects of (unclear) than any body you can think of - in the first place he aught to have been content with his farm if he had not bought the east lot nor that mill nor the up river lot it seems as if he might have lived much easier & happier but his fault is to be always grasping after too much - I guess we can come to some accommodation about matters (by the way it would have been far better if it had been, done last winter as I wanted) for I don't care much how it is done I am not afraid but what I shall have all I deserve the short time I have to stay it may be very short tho' there is considerable reason to fear that I shall live to extreme old age for Mrs. Goldsbury used to say the Stevens never die. Can't Ann leave her school Friday morn and so come up in the afternoon don't put of coming I want you and Ehab should come because so that I can scold at you about matter and things - about your meals you perhaps might with (unclear) be almost as well as he.