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I have been awkward enough to blot my paper as you will see we have got all the copperheads off of our place at last there was two families of them here they are both gone now we only have to contend with the moccasins Pa is trying to get a shop rigged out here is a good stand for a shop he is going tommorrow for a lathe and some other machinery the most of the ground is rented out this season we have sold ginny for ninety five dollars and bought a small young mare for fifty five dollars I think that she very cheap at that she is a splendid traveler she can pace a blue streak Fanny is writing to Thos Magee he is still in the Barrick he has written several times to her