p.

fine a feast of letters as I had when
I returned from Ferrisburgh - I believe
there were eight that I had not seen
to me & others of the family - one from
Moses of goodly length - Oh such
a storm as we are having - it has snowed
about forty hours & to-day the wind has
blown some, but not very hard - this near
two feet of snow added to what J. S.
Adams said - "that it was any where from
4 1/2 to 100 feet deep," will give thee
some idea of the way blockading is
done in Vt. we did not try to go to meet-
ing to-day - Thomas went to Horace's, to
see how he was getting along & staid sev-
eral hours - Mary told me she had a
letter begun to thee - but she may not have
found time to finish it - on fifth
day H. went up on the crust to see
J. Lewis - who I presume thee has heard
has been very sick with typhoid fever
he found him better & returned home com-
ing most of the way on a land sled - said
he came nearly over the river - on sixth

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day morning he went in from the barn
& said to Mary "come let's be children a-
gain for a little while & slide down
hill" - so they took Mary on the sled &
went - Duran & Ellen & several others
joining them - they went in "fine style"
a few times - but then with Melissa
on the sled behind him, his foot hit a
small drift, which dislocated his hip,
they drawed him to the house & to his bed-
room door, where he remained on the sled
till they got Kellog from Plainfield &
Chandler from the village, when they
put him onto a bed in the sitting room
& administered chloroform & set it -
he appears to be doing well - but of
course feels pretty bad to be thrown out
of his business at this busy time & just
as his payments are coming due -
but he bears it well - so does Mary - poor
child she looked very pale that day - but
Thomas says she is pretty smart now -

J. C. Tabor is 2nd select-man and
juryman - court is now sitting - Nat.