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No. III

If you think to take any action in the foregoing case, may I suggest the propriety of giving forthwith an order to stop the sale of the potatoes, as [[strikethrough]] the day app [[/strikethrough]] said sale already once has been postponed for want of bidders.
Concerning Jacks character so far as I know him, his chief feature is strict honesty. If it has been said in presence of the bureau-officer that he was a drunkard, that is a slander. May be, he liquored with Glameyer, I can not tell, but during the time he lived on my premises, I saw him only once a little excited. That was in the last weeks of his stay, when already excited & may be on account of scarcity of money he had to take some groceries. Though somewhat in years & consequently not an A number

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