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1869 New Years night two miles North of Lonellings? ------- Dear Georgie I have near for- gotten your little dog Dash.
I have two dogs, I call one of them Faine? the other Compie? because he is my companion. I am living all alone now away out
in the wide Joaquin plains in a little board shanty. It is not a pretty shanty, it looks worse than a Hotentots? but I am
a shepherd now. I wish you were with me to help me to take care of the sheep I have 1800 to watch, sometimes they run scatter
over bank brae, far wide, it is all that I my two dogs can do to make them behave -