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If you feel miserable sometimes in your[underlined] employment, + if the old saw applies to you, that "misery[underlined] loves company", it will do you good to think of my[underlined] chance, in the cold barn seated on an old tin boiler husking wet corn with sore fingers. If you need a thick every day coat, take a good substantial ready made one from the store. Take good care of yourself, + keep [?] comfortable. I am willing to supply you with all needful + reasonable clothing, and other[underlined] things, if I do[underlined] have to husk in the cold. My pigs grow; + I think they will, by + by, be tolerable for sausages[underlined] + souse, say, by time you get home, last [illegible]. We have got our soap into the cellar, 2 bbls [?] + some more - and it rained + blew all the time we were fussing with it; and the old soap bbl. [?] leaked, + the soap ran over the floor; + I had to dip it out, + got daubed well over with it. Was it that agreeable? But we must have soaps.[full sentence underlined] Eve'g No mail. It was forgotten at Ms. Fulls [?]. How much longer, think, my old[underlined] pen[?][underlined] will last? It is a sorry looking thing. I will keep it till you come home [illegible] you see it. Look at your bundle of letters from me, + just think what this miserable old cast off goose quill, used a long time ago + thrown away, + with out mending, - has accomplished. Just think. It closes this page, any[underlined] how.