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Back from my visit [and?] you never gave me a direct answer it [worries?] me as much as anything I presume you remember ---------- We live pretty well down here but it costs us a considerable but I think it is no use to be stingy we buy butter and milk and [defrost? articals] [There} is eight of us in one [tent but] [there] a nigger to do our cooking washing and take care of our things we pay him ten dollars a month Potatos [obscured] from one [dollar] to two for bushel [obscured] pr llb milk less [obscured] to live which we have [obscured] but I shant be too extravagant for I think of you at home and want you to live like a lady while I am gone take all the comfort you can I will send you some money every time I [dare] to use as you [please?] Well dear I must close as this sheaf is about full and I don't think of much more to write