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Milo March 1st 1846
very Dear Isaac
This is my Birth day and when yet another Spring commences I shall have number'd my threescore years and how few and evil they do seem. How foolish and wicked it is to think and care so much about the things of time when all things sublunary are passing away, passing away, passing away, so fast. I will first thank you for the very great gratification I have had in reading 4 or 5 letters from you & which Charles brought from Bangor and one (double) we took from the P.O. yesterday. I do not mean to say the days are evil exactly but I have been evil in not making a better use of them for what a poor foolish useless thing I am. And yet how highly favor'd. I do not mean to say that any of you are any better than you should be but I say that I have great cause for gratitude that all my children are what they are. 3rd Last thursday Charles carried Lucy to Bangor ( a bitter cold day) she expected to come back with him but concluded to stay a week or two. Charles return'd Friday almost froze his face. Today he is gone down the River with the rest of his Oats I dont expect he will get as much for them as he could about here by & by for there are a great many about here who want to buy to Sow. But he was under a necessity of selling for money to pay taxes, - Bradford for Leather - & for Horse Harn. etc. He expect they will be high but he will not have much if any to sell for he had such bad time about getting it a considerable part of it was damag'd and some of it was not cut at all - he was sick you know and could not help when he wanted it for love or money. The freshet last fall spoiled the Medow hay so that it is not worth hauling home Wm Frost cut it for half. He sow'd a bushel of wheat up on that lot - which was hardly worth cutting then it got wet so much and bridge gone, it stands in heaps on the field where it grew but the Oats, & peas & oats did pretty well we had about 200 bushels I believe. Chas been trying all winter