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soldier in times of peace, but as
my country is now in war. I wou-
ld, if proper, be nothing else. So,
I am content with my avocati-
on, and I hope this may ever be my
state of mind, alwas to have
respect to my lot.

Now to business, mother: You are
at liberty to use the money I send
you, for all that I do send you is
designed to meet your wants, not
not mine. I shall hereafter keep ten do-
llars of every two months pay to m-
eet my own wants, the rest shall
be sent to you, which I wish you
to appropriate to the things you th-
ink best. Do not reserve it for any
need of mine, for "sufficient, unto
the day is the evil thereof." You mig-
ght keep money for a certain thing,
some reverse to me, for instance, and
that reverse may never happen.
I may never again be wounded