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to do but thought yesterday morning I
would pack up and start for Pontiac
but I am not able to watch or travel
yet nor do I expect to do either this weak.
Unkle gave me a good bit of praise
yesterday which made me feel very fine
and this morning when they were all
but cousin Abbie gone to Church, she
told me, she had many times heard
her father say since I commenced to watch
that he could go to bed and rest good for
Charle is a good [underline]night watch[/underline] and I
can trust him with out a feer of any+++++++++++++++++++++
thing being stolen so this makes me
feel some better, and perhaps I had better
not watch any more, but quit when my
credit is good, but I think I will stay here
a few monhs more but dont know.
If I were back at Pontiac I would be very
glad of it, and would not hanker for
any more of this part of the world.
Haying is done all on this farm and nearly
all the men are discharged. I have [not?] been