4 painted he has also got his clover tr illegible hay into it and I tell you he feels pleased over it. We are having a very
long hot spell the thermometer has been at 100 103 in the shade. the heat is hurrying things along so much that harvest will
be earlier than usual the Orchard other crops look very well but we are troubled a good deal with Potato illegible Marys school
would be out last Thursday she has enjoyed herself very well this summer and seems to have got along finely she means to Pick
Hops be very saving try to go to the Madison University the coming Winter whether she will succeed in her plan or not I cannot
tell I am afraid it will cost more than she thinks. Henry Reid has got home about a week ago she means to have a talk with
him and learn all about it. Anna Joanna's schools will not be out for a little while yet I do not know what their plans are.
Father still thinks of selling but whether he will get a buyer or not is a problem. Maggie illegible Andrew Emerton are at
last divorced. the last news is that James Brown has whipped and abbused Me illegible so much that she has has to leave him
John Foster Willie Weir went brought her her little boys home what people there as in this world Dan. I trust that I shall
hear from you soon also that your health is better from your affectionate sister Sarah 1 in margin: I wrote you last
January. you have not answered yet. Sarah Mound Hill July 12th /68 My Dear Brother Dan - I would like to know if you
have forgotten that you have a sister called Sarah I do not think you had as late as last Christmas by the stirring appeal
you sent. coming upon me like a thunderbolt it sent me to writing in a hurry. And now you are trying me again by your silence
(enough). Maggie has been staying with me over a week she received your letter while here so that I had a chance to hear of
your welfare. you mention Johns long silence we have all wearied and waited anxiously for a letter from him. only two or three
days ago we were all cheered by the news that a letter has reached Portage for mother from California. we have had no chance
to hear the news yet but