manage to blindfold me and made me very unhappy but I hope he may be made to account to you for his actions but I much fear the result. Catherine writes that he was very flash in Canterbury. She is quite distressed at his folly in gaving John's wife a very hansom gold watch and chain that was all very well if he had it of his own but he ought to look to his own sister first. Seeing the loss of sheep and the dreadful expence it was not a time to make preasants. It is hard for me to be writing this way