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2 envelope with small portions of printed specimens as soon as you can for me and I will get full specimens af- terwards.
I am glad you got into a shop that suited you so well, I think that you are on the right bus- iness track now, endeavor to
get your Ball to roll into some similar establishment and turn wheel till he can turn himself. Now are you getting along at
the lathe. How do you turn broom handles, is the broom end of the handle put on a centre or on a socket. What kind of timber
do you use - how much do you turn illegible where do you find a illegible . What wages do you, or are you to get. What will
they illegible per thousand for turning 3 of handles, write me a long letter soon, Do not work so hard as to run yourself
into the ground. Your prophecy concerning Osgood Smith is not yet accomplished - I am taking it easier now all of my lumber
is brought in now and sawed off for me - the weatheir too is cool and I begin to feel much better My Icy the? is at last finished
and the drawings etc will soon be disposed of. I will soon have the cattle under way I mean to set up my whittling at the
state fair which comes off on the first of Oct. I wish you would come on a visit then I mean now Dan to give my whole attention
to machines because I must I can not get my mind