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since you have gone. This week we will if God pleases go, when the wash is out of the way. The horse was wanted to haul the rails from one place to another, & to bring home the potatoes, and the week before something prevented us too. Indeed last week I had the diarhoea and took ail and was out but once, except to Church this morning. <personName>Henry</personName> had a sick stomach this morning & <personName>Rosa</personName>s blister is not well yet, so there was no one to go, but myself.

<personName>Hiester</personName> thinks you put no trust in him. He says you dole out 20 Dollrs to him at a time, and if he gets into the habit of getting into debt, it will be your fault. It began by his saying he wanted a pair of Gloves but had no money. Why I told him you had just given him 20 Dollrs when he said he must have that to pay his debts _ that you only allowed him 150 Dollrs a year, & it was my fault that he had not gone where he could have earned an independance by this time probably. I told him I would tell you, and he said I might, I told him you said he would get into business in time, yes he answered when I no longer am a young Man, recollect I am not 26 and in a few years I shall no longer be young or enjoy life. I wish he was Married and settled. I think you might give him a competence, for he is old enough, and I fear he will be here some years yet before he gets into profitable business. —

I hope this will find you in your usual health. There are cases of remittent fever still here. <personName>Fichlhorn</personName>s youngest Son was buried to day, & another is very ill, <personName>Kendal</personName>s eldest child died

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