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We have the most splendid peaches I ever saw, both clear and
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clingstones so large they would about fill the top of a common sized water goblet, and most delicious in flavor. this is a great fruit year every variety in abundance. trees are loaded with nectarines, and grapes are a [illeg]?we have been eating every variety for several weeks. My poultry is not as plenty as you have it. I have 25 or 3 0 turkeys some ducks, and a good many chickens, but my geese did not even lay, or if they did I did not hear of a single egg?I am glad to hear there is a prospect for a fine corn crop ours would have been very good if the birds would let it alone, but they come in flocks, what they call here the rice bird, and crows together and it stands no chance the cotton has come out surprisingly some Mr Jackson gave up as lost, has taken a start and is now waist high and loaded with bolls. the hands have been picking for the last week. you poor Pa is very much tried he knows they should be watched, yet he does not like to remain there and leave us up here alone. we have terrible thunder storms, and we are all so timid. if I was alone I would go down with him, and remain there until the crop was all gathered, but I could not stand it down there with the children.
I wish we had a good overseer.
I am pleased to hear Brother is such a big man, but I should not fancy an indian daughter in law that would be paying too high for savage honors, do not you think so. Tell our darling Sammy if he is still "heart whole and fancy free" I hope when he becomes broken hearted, and fancy ensnared it will be by as sweet a little nymph as I could choose for him, but I do not intend to advise him to let me even propose for perhaps the prize may not