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pay Ike or send the skeleton back if it was female and that we found two other old bones
so you write to Elgin alas so he might tel old Ike and if feel like you can make a offer. Elgin said in his letter the whites was talking about it a good deal. so I expect to land behind the bars anytime now. 
Pardon me for writing with pencil for I did not have no ink. 
as ever your Friend
Wm. Benson