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Fix this textGlen Esk
Fix this text21 Aug 1912
Fix this textMy dearest Alice
Fix this textYour postal card to hand I hope for a long letter tomorrow. Have been mustering all
Fix this textweek and grub very low. Fee! very much tempted to run down and see you but must
Fix this textstick to this a bit now.
Fix this textI have invitation to another dance at Mrs Kinliside Jnr’s place. No hope of going I
Fix this textwould not take much interest in it.
Fix this textI will take a run out west from this time next week may hear of a place out there there
Fix this textare many estates being sold up and government will advance £95 per amount of
Fix this textpurchase monies one ought to be able to finance on that.
Fix this textI was thoroughly down hearted over my losses but feel more like having a go at it
Fix this textagain now I think the less I get to eat the better I feel. Following is my diet scale last
Fix this texttwo days Tuesday. No morning tea, breakfast plate of porridge and scrap of bacon
Fix this textno butter etc. Lunch thin slices dry bread and one chop cooked on coals in bush.
Fix this textTea one egg and bread and jam. Wednesday breakfast same as Tuesday - lunch
Fix this textbread and bacon cooked on coals in bush. Tea lambs frysaid iamb being killed at
Fix this textfour o’clock. Well I know it seems poor stuff to complain at a little hardship but when
Fix this textone is hungry the subject somehow keeps getting uppermost in one’s mind.
Fix this textSusan is becoming quite a treasure she works away out ahead of sheep now and
Fix this textseems to be very intelligent. Dan is rather a cross to bear he will rush the sheep and
Fix this textbite them am afraid Dan will stop a bullet one day but he may come right. Susan
Fix this textwas an awful little ass as a pup.
Fix this textI hope you will send me a long letter tomorrow you have no idea how I rush the mails
Fix this textevery second day. The mare hit me against a tree and I am lame will be very sore
Fix this texttomorrow I expect but have been very lucky with my horses so far as the ground is
Fix this textvery boggy and full of old rabbit holes. There is hardly a rabbit to be seen now thank
Fix this textgoodness.
Fix this textWell old girl will close this now am too tired at night to write a sensible letter. With
Fix this textmuch love to you and the little ones
Fix this textX X X X X X
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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