File 2: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 691-1800, 1855-1874: No. 015

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get the crops in, and the wheat threshed before I start  -  The ploughing is getting on well  -  but the [?]  has been laid up for the last month with a pain in the side  -  I branded four Foals of yours since Xmas.  Old grey Lucy has had no
foals for two years. -  she must be pretty old now although she is as fat as ever she possibly can be  - they tell me somebody has been riding Black Lucy's legs off, and that she is so poor that she can scarcely walk   -  we went for her the other day but could not find her  - If I stop up here I do not mind taking the Horses in the terms proposed viz  -  I am to have them for the term of Five years - to make this
 

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