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I succeeded in borrowing a Harpers long enough to read Orley Farm. I thought the last two or three books rather tedious. Wednesday noon, Steaming up the Mississippi at a Snail pace. At the wood yard, the John Warner, and our boat took a gun boat in tow, with it we are not making more than four miles an hour. The men begin to feel the effects of a change of climate they huddle around a fire with an overcoat on as if it realy was cold weather. Lt. Howard's wife is in Covington. How does wheat look? Are you having a cold winter, and how near hog killing time are you, and as many other questions as you are a mind to answer