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1865-05-18-Page 06

& sit still in the Buggy, now if I had been a Saw-Mill. I should have sawed him all up into Garden palings (Dutch ones at that) & pitch them on the Land so that the raines might beat him on the Head & make a round Headed Ducthman out of him instead of a flat one 
this morning we went to Cleaning up, up stairs. papa staid & talked to Martin as long as he could then asked him ,to go with to make fence, but he soon came back & Mother & Bell Entertained him untill Dinner. then immediately after he took his Departure for Green County, oh Dear this is almost full & I have not told you half, that is doing in Home, & this is all the paper I can find, dont scold I wanted to write sooner. but had'nt time, we only milk Eight Cows, Sam take pity on me & come & drive off two or a half Dozen of them, Oh! most forgot, your sheep Tillie, has a small male weather Lamb, Jesie thinks it one of the seven wonders I will try to write again soon, take care of yourselves, & write often, Yours [?]

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& sit still in the Buggy, now if I had been a Saw-Mill. I should have sawed him all up into Garden palings (Dutch ones at that) & pitch them on the Land so that the raines might beat him on the Head & make a round Headed Ducthman out of him instead of a flat one this morning we went to Cleaning up, up stairs. papa staid & talked to Martin as long as he could then asked him ,to go with to make fence, but he soon came back & Mother & Bell Entertained him untill Dinner. then immediately after he took his Departure for Green County, oh Dear this is almost full & I have not told you half, that is doing in Home, & this is all the paper I can find, dont scold I wanted to write sooner. but had'nt time, we only milk Eight Cows, Sam take pity on me & come & drive off two or a half Dozen of them, Oh! most forgot, your sheep Tillie, has a small male weather Lamb, Jesie thinks it one of the seven wonders I will try to write again soon, take care of yourselves, & write often, Yours [?]