about 1879

Dear Ned -

Dennis was happy yesterday, and it made him graceful - I saw him waltzing with the Cow - and suspected his status, but he afterward started for your House in a frame that was unmistakable -

You told me he had'nt tasted Liquor since his Wife's decease - then she must have been living at six o'clock last Evening -

I fear for the rectitude of the Barn -

Love for the Police -