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expensive journey with a baby - I am sorry for you "but then it is nothing to California - Suppose you were to be gone 3 or 4 years - Why you have not been four months from your family yet" and you have only one Child to leave & C. has three & what adds exceedingly to all the rest with Albina is she has the care of housekeeping - family affairs &c. &c. She does feel very much troubled & distressed says her heart will break - finally I do suppose & I believe we all do that C ought to have come home last Spring - whether it will do for him to come now on account of his health I dont know. I doubt whether he ought to stay on account of the money he can get - for he could get wages enough here common Irishmen get here in Bangor from 2,50 to 300, a day & hard to get help at all - beside Charles expenses & losses are great at home - but the greatest consideration is that Albina takes it so hard I think that any other of my six girls would get along with it with more fortitude

It does seem as if Walter might consider it a good chance that he has there even if he gets not much besides the board of himself & family as he has no other home & cannot work - Albina wrote me that "Charles gives him a good chance but she did not tell what

It does seem also as if Albina might brace herself to endure "the care & trial" of C.'s being gone a while longer & perhaps she would rather than have him come just as the cold weather commences & make him sick ever loving Mother