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  Brooklyn 1867 Dear Walt

i thought i must write A few lines although i am very tired indeed it is evening no one home but Edd and hattie and me martha has been gone to philadelphe most a week Jeff came home last night but mat dident come they were to come tuesday or wensday sure i dont think they will come such a game over me again she has no girl and the work has been very hard on me davis s cousin has been here come the same night they went and staid till monday then he came again last night but Jeff helped me get breakfast this morning i hope mat will come to morrow they think its all nothing i dont even get thanked i have been left so much alone here this winter they leave me a whissel to blow three times if any body comes to break in davis says the watchmen will come over if i blow three times i told him i should be more afraid of the watchmen than i should of the burglars i dont suppose there is any danger but it is very dreary up here in cold winter nights i am most afraid of fire but it will be spring one of these days i hope) its very cold here to night hattee is setting one side of me and Edd the other Jeff and davis has gone away to be out very late)

i forgot to tell you when i wrote last Emma price had been here i got her dinner and last sunday she was here to tea and she came again on monday she brought me a lot of oranges her mother is very well and been to the theater George was up to day he seldom misses without it storms   very bad he is well looks real fat he is in hopes they can sell one of the other houses

i see walt by your letter mr Heyde has not forgotten you i too have had a short epistle from him but mine was quite moderate he says he sent me a long letter this last winter but he dident direct it right so he thinks i dident get it but i did it was very long it treated mostly about a rabbitt in the wood house i must write to han as soon as i can my arm keeps lame yet it gets up my arm more i got your letter yesterday walt with the money all safe if you can walt just as well as not in about two weeks send me ten dollars i have bought a barrel of flour and am to pay him five dollars and he is to wait two weeks for the ten so walt if you can send it by that time i would be glad) there was something i wanted to tell you i thought off to day but i cant think what it is nothin of great importance or i could think of it we have got a lot of little chickens was haching when they went away so we had to fetch them in some died hattie buried one after she covered it up she asked me if i thought it would go to heaven hattie is a very smart child if she had the right tutoring i doo hope when mat comes home she will settle down they have went it this winter if they never did before walt i think when you read this you l say mother is getting childish i think very like she is

good bie walte dear