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Your last letter, of Oct. 28th 31st was received on Tuesday last, and has done me good all the week. When commencing it you seem to have just received a piece of letter from me written at Pinckneyville. Did I not write to you the result of the Curlee vs. Reyes trial? The verdict, although a mixed one, various points being considered, and variously decided, was in favor of Mr Reyes: avoiding to Curlee less than Mr Reyes had offered him a year before. Besides that the interest was not allowed, which was a loss to Curlee of some 70 or 80 dolls. You say you felt cross having a canker sore in your mouth. I do not believe it, that is the crossest it was all in your imagination. I have plagued you, and dared you to it enough to know. Being cross is an exploit of which you are entirely incapable. You had better "meekly" give up all pretentions to it. You would I know if you could hear me snub some of these Suckers, occasionally , so as to know by observation what Cross is. I am very sorry for the canker though. Hope it is all well. I am afraid you and Mother do too much work, & get tired. Why do you have a cold? Be careful - Hire some help in the house, if you need it in the least. Getting home here last night, I found letters from Bangor, Samuel, Eliab & Lucy. Lucy only one page though and you know she is the news writer. Little Charlie is there, came down from Milo the only passenger on stage. Coach & four all to himself! Eliab & Maria comfortably housekeeping & all well. Eliab & Samuel wrote very fully of their business. They have got along much better than could have been expected. It has you know been a very hard time for business men everywhere. They seem to me to have been unusually fortunate. With such hard times in the business world; the chances appeared decidedly against them. Especially as Samuel's last winter Lumber failed to come to market, and the twenty or twenty five thousand dollars owed to Pendleton to Ross by Furber & Bradeen put it out of the power of so 'P. & R. who were relyed upon as the backers of Furber