LETTER VI.
In which things look brighter.
Cousin Ephraim,—I thought I would jest write you
another little postscript to my letter that I was going to
send you in a day or tu, and let you know that the legislaters
want split so bad as some folks tho't for.—
They've got 'em both mended again, so that they set 'em
agoing to day afore noon. But in the arternoon, that
legislater they call the Sinnet, got struck, and in trying
to make it go, it rather seemed to crack a little;
so they stopt short till to-morrow. Its been jostled
about so, and got so weak an' rickety, some are afraid
it will give out yet, or
split in tu again.
