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costing the doctors themselves some five or six dollars an ounce. Many simply let the disease run. The dull stupid feeling between whiles gradually nears out, the patient recovers a great appetite; perhaps is able to work well on the alternate days, and some have it so for months or even a year. And some doctors cure it with all sort of bitter roots & barks. For myself, one or two shakes and fevers, answers very well, and I am quite resigned to take a Quinine, if it is bitter, and throw it off.

  Is Samuel going to build upon the lot he has bought of Uncle Nattagniel Harlow. 

I would like to help eat some of your "Milo Chickens" cooked as you cook them. Us suckers cook chickens it is rather hard feed. I wish I could describe the process of getting a meal of victuals here. 1st kindle a fire, 2d ? to door with rifle & shoot the chickens. {Every animal is shot here, beef, hog, or chicken} and a chicken is never killed over five minutes before it is cooking. It is always cut up and boiled, and all parts, You will always find the feet on the platter, and often the head! You will hardly believe this but it is a serious fact! very much so it seemed to me at first, when I could not eat my dinner for it.

 Another queer thing is that butter is always churned as it is used, not before hand; one part of getting a Meal Meal of Victuals is churning a pint bowl of butter.

The last thing before setting the table is stirring water into a dish of Corn Meal, and putting it before the fire to