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Nearly a year & a half has passed since I left the time has passed very swiftly & pleasantly with me I have enjoyed myself well I wish you all a merry christmas & a happy new year I awfully hated to leave Mary but I could not always stay with her I have not heard? from her since I "unclear" away it is seven weeks yesterday she gave me a pair of sheets & Susan gave me a fair & Jane gave me a table cloth I don't know how I should of got along with out them every? kind of clothing costs a "unclear" hear factory cloth costs fifteen "unclear" per yard such is? we used buy for eight I think things will be cheaper in the course of a few years they will when they get their railroad through but this year nor "unclear" Father do you think of comming to Wisconsin this winter if you do come & see me when I shall come there I cannot tell perhaps never Asa parents reside in Rochester he will go there next summer he has buisness It is not imposable but what he may come and see you I supose you will call him a boy the same you do John "unclear" he is a little older than John is he is twenty 24 years old Charley I would like to have you come and live with us when we get a keeping house there is plenty of Prairre chickens & Quails & Wild Geese & Minks you could go out and kill lots of them almost any time Asa has killed lots of them this fall he killed a goose that would nearly twelve pounds it was all that I could do to lift it it was an old buster I don't think of much more to write "unclear" as soon as you receive this my love and best wishes to all now don't forget to write

                                               From Your Daughter
                                                                    Augusta Hurd