David and Daniel can sing the tune you marked and great many others besides illegible is a card that came to Midland Postal
office for you and here is a mark for your Bible which I have sent you to remember me by. I dont know whither I am going to
school this winte or not but I hope I will so I can git my head a little enlarged with something what ever it is writing or
spelling or reading or arithmetic so as I can git something in to my head but they dont know anything about who is going to
teach yet our folks any way is the schools commenced where you are I think I would like to live in the sity so nicely I wouldn't
need to walk far in tham frosty mornings can you see the school. do you lern in the morning when ever you get your choirs
is Done tell me all you do every thing you do in the morning when you get up. I often Dreem that you have come Back I have
Dreemed that four or five time Mary and Anne has Dreemed that you have come home to. one I Dreemed I found you in our Bed
making a nother clock and a nother time I thought I found you in the Barren menging your clock I thought you had Broake it
and had Gone home to mend it and I thought when ever you got it mended you took hell and ran and the? illegible and started
of agan Pa and Ma and all the rest sends their love to you I am finishing my letter on thanks giving day and Pa is away
at a meeting and the boys are chopping down trees and what are you doing today * Goodbye write soon from your affectionate
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