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number one fieldhand, he is not lazy goes hunting, fishing, makes baskets &c. He braggs sometimes when the prospect of crops is good, but it seems he deludes himself not being able to make a correct estimate, as it appears by the castles in the air he sometimes builds. That does hurt nobody, except may be himself. 

I am, Sir, very respectfully

Your 

most obedient

Edward Roeder.

Little Cypress Creek.
Cypress City P.O. 
Harris Co.
Texas. 
Dec. 6th 1868. 

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