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relatives. Our daughter is educated, has good health, is virtuous, is a good house-keeper and is worth many pots of boild meat, fried bread, jerked meat, cans of peaches, watermellon, horses and mock Navajo blanket. We propose to prolong the ceremony by telling the young man's folks, by gentle hints that the horses and blankets they brought are not enough to go round. We also place great value on the beauty of our daughter. That alone is worth more, by ten times, than the ponies they have been bringing to us every day. We have plenty of time and can wait for them to secure more goods. If they haven't the money to buy more goods they can borrow it at the Citizen's National Bank, paying a small interest, twenty four per cent, and get the goods, but in the mean time we propose to sit and eat. We have the appetite and can do justice to whatever amount or quality they may bring. Here endeth the whole sheet. Will write again soon.

Ever affly,
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