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We left the people at Houston in tears. The colored ones all took us by the hand and bade us good bye. These here appear very friendly and we think we will like them. We dont know the price of board yet. Probably it will be about $20.00 per month for each of us - wife and myself.

The prospect at the hotel was so inviting that wife wouldn't eat any breakfast and is fasting until now. 

It must be something very tough that will turn my stomach. 

The harvest truly is plenteous in this Freedmen's field but the laborers are