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  For a poor Gentleman, this & I should concern damaged page new countries an unfavorable to their views of advertisement - the sooner such   if they cannot bear at home learn to work the better- nay beg for something to do fairly to be a Bricklayer's valet - In new Countries all those who can labour are well paid for their services.  Professionals have plenty to do - they send in long ? which are seldom settled , but now on the subject of Professionals a german gentleman with whom I once travelled observed that Texas appeared to be made up of Judges and Colonels.
   Leaving Houston I journeyed with a friend into Montgomery County & then Eastward to the ?  margin damaged  and as we got into the interior with stocked farms presented themselves & among some of the good things obtained was good milk & excellent potatoes -  X
  As this paper is more confined to the characteristics of the people &c then a description of this part of the country this ? over I offer the following -

X It was now the dry season, thus the roads & tracks were dry, & my friend rode in a Buggy, myself on horseback. but in Winter the roads in the prairie country are heavy. Indeed if ? artillery can pass through the country there can be but ? difficulty for their ? - Courting Story - Phipps - Towney - ?