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and can find something for you to do that will be useful and improving. If you have not told this my decision before now to Addison, do it now, without further delay. I [start underline] wish you to stay with J. N. Denison & Co. no longer unless it be understood that they pay enough to pay your board - [end underline] I have advised you of every thing important in regard to our Railroad. Smith has decided to extend it. I can't tell when the work will be commenced. It will run thro. my field, between my house & Mrs. [Cartman's?]. Smith called to see me a few days ago, & insisted upon my either selling to him my situation, [start underline] for a public house [end underline], or converting it into one myself. I told him I would consider & advise him what I would, or not, do. Mr. McKee & I have had a ride to the up. village & to Basin Falls. He is an old fashioned, set, regular [?] [?] began the world poor & [?], & has toiled along over many ups & downs, & by patient & [?] [?] accumulated a [?] of property. I try to make his stay with us agreeable to him on account of my respect for Mr. Arrowsmith more than for any extraordinary merit that I discover in him. Mr. Loring showed me the [?] you made. It was well done. You stay you wish me to write twice [underline] a week.If you will look over my letters, you will find I have written much often than that. You will be glad to hear good of John Davis. [Broune?] his teacher, told me last evening that he was a wonderful scholar. that he got 130 lines in a [?] a page & half in Greek readers per day, besides [declaiming?] composition & those things, & that