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2 we do, he is no more able to take care of himself than a little child and yet he says he will rent some rooms and board
himself. The reason he gives is the old one he can do so much more good there as he can go into the market and see so many
people without traveling about. No reasoning concerning his inability can make the least impression on him and we are completely
at a loss to know what to do, for 3 it does seem out of the question to let him go. Walter has eleven hundred dollars
of his money in his business which, by the way, with a promissory note for two hundred, and two small houses in Portage is
all that remains of his earthly possessions and at present we are hindering him from going by telling him that it is inconvenient
to let him have the necessary money but of course that will not last long and if we should illegible 01066