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Marcellus W. Darling letters, 1865-1892
1865-03-01-Page 02
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we have harde winter here and a grate deal of snow it has ben three feet deep on the level and the roads vary badly drifted but we have had a vary heavy thaw and the ground begins to show its face again we are begining to think that we shall make some maple shugar the boys are taping trees to day and the sap runs finely they work Mr Lords bush this spring and you know where that is it is the bush that Mr Stickny usd to own every thing is scarce hay is thirty dollars pr ton corn 1 dollar and fifty cents a bushel flower thirteen dollars pr barrel and every thing in proportion and it kneds good economy to get along in these times but if I could this rebellion put down and peace once more restord to our American Shores I think I could be happy but the Lord onely knows when this cruel will cease but it seems that the south can not resist mutch longer but we cant tell mutch about it but there is one thing that I can say that you have onely a little more than six months
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we have harde winter here and a grate deal of snow it has ben three feet deep on the level and the roads vary badly drifted but we have had a vary heavy thaw and the ground begins to show its face again we are begining to think that we shall make some maple shugar the boys are taping trees to day and the sap runs finely they work Mr Lords bush this spring and you know where that is it is the bush that Mr Stickny usd to own every thing is scarce hay is thirty dollars pr ton corn 1 dollar and fifty cents a bushel flower thirteen dollars pr barrel and every thing in proportion and it kneds good economy to get along in these times but if I could this rebellion put down and peace once more restord to our American Shores I think I could be happy but the Lord onely knows when this cruel will cease but it seems that the south can not resist mutch longer but we cant tell mutch about it but there is one thing that I can say that you have onely a little more than six months
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