to do any thing else, I am more fleshy than ever I was and less strength Cynthia tells me every day how much oil you ha ve got and that you will be at home next spring Dear Husband will you come Oh how anxious I am about you and if I can hear next fall that that you are coming I shall have a happy winter in making preperations not a being on earth to me like your Dear self when you are with me I care for no other company and I verry often think it cant be that you feel the same about me for I cannot feel myself worthy. Peter my garden looks finely Uncle Jima does the work I think of you and so does Sisa every time we go out toards night to look a the plants and flowers. Jacob came home last Saturday is well and is much the same talks fast asks a great deal about you Sarah went to keeping house last month to Wm Norton Jacob gave me a black Pig three months old just what I had been wanting, Charles Spooner sent over word that there was one Mr Dow going to the S Islands and would take a package for any one that would forward them to him and I have had my minature and the Childrens taken to send to you I know you will be pleasd with them I could not keep the babe still enough to have his taken awake and so you will see he is asleep and observe what a noble head he has got and that I look care worne