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barrel of first rate buckwheat flour, he sent him down some to sell for him last season and he did not sell a barrel of it and if you will send you are welcome to one if you will accept of it. He says tell S. he said so, William Bosson is a real whole soul'd fellow. I like him so much.

Your darling brats are right well and burnt as brown as a berry. Jimmy and Longworth both has had a touch of croup, but I soon cured that with a linament Catherine told me of. I do not know how Longworth took cold but Jim got his by having his hair cut his Uncle William took pitty on him and shaved his wool. They have had fine times at the mill. It was hay making and you may depend they had fine times out in the hay. You never saw children eat as they do in all your life they are eating from morning till night, and drink milk till all is blue again.

I forgot to tell you how sick Catherine has been, her anxiety and fatigue about Benjamin when he was sick laid her up She is much better now. I believe it made her worse worrying about being sick when her Cincinnati friends came She says she had been counting so much on our coming and then to be sick when we did come was too bad. I know it helped to make her worse but she says if Hiram only will come up and stay a while along with the rest she shall be entirely well. I do hope he will come for all the twon are expecting it. I never saw such people in my life. They asked C some