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the Winter Will be Wet provisions scarce and high
and money scarce until the rain comes so that
miners Will not be able to send lay in their Winters [winter's]
provisions them that has got claims Will take all
they make to support them and them that has got no
claims God help them.

My Wife joins me in sending our love to you
And to Father Mother and Sisters also to you
and James hopeing [hoping] that this will find you as
it leaves us in good health I have not learned
Mary to say Aunt Marny yet but she calls
herself mamy and she has got the right name for
she is spunk every inch. to day [today] we had company one of
the Women had a little boy larger than her when we
eat we the little boy and Mary a plate each she was very
polite to him and he got up and she took his plate
and followed trying to get him to eat his dinner leaveing [leaving]
her own on the floor he would not take his own but
thought he would like hers as he stooped she dropped
his plate and ran up to him and shook her fist in
his nose and said she you do it made me think of
the Jane Edgas affair but she favours [favors] Caroline and
and is almost as large she is very large of her age and
very healthy since she has been in the mountains

send to Campo Seco Caleveras County P. Office
as there is another Campo Seco in another County

Write as soon as you receive this I have got the old story