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This is a few lines but
you need not rite [write?] back
anything I say in it you
requested me to tell you the
truth when I was coming
here I thought I had a
large family and the [they?]
would be very useful
to me but if the [they?] do it
is all to come yet Seragh [Sara?]
is all the one that has
been steady to her work
but girls cannot do
much more than keep
themselves Mary Anne was 16
or 17 months out of work
but she is in a place now
I have not got one cent
from David this 12 months
and Johnny is no better
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He gives a little for his
board when working but
that is not much he is
verry [very?] rough with Father
and mother and all the
rest and is a great affront [affront?]
to me all the help I have
got from them since I
came here is now a tale
but loss Johnny drinks all
his money I never saw
David drunk but he spends
it some other way and to
help me better I have
Samuel McNickle and
Magy [Maggie?] and 2 children you
may think I have but a
poor time instead of being
helped by my friends here
I am only oppressed if the [they?] had
all done right I could have sent
your money before now do not
say anything of this back
Written at side and top of page 1
No one in the house knows of this do not rite[write?]
anything of it back to me
