10 I got a few sheep to call my own and let them increase so that I could be a little independent of a good brother. I feel altho I am doing all I can for your interest as well as my own here that if I could comence with a little of my own I would be more pleased and would not have always to go to you for my wants. I do not know yet what money my wife may brings but whatever it may be I want to put it in stock. If you will gave me leave to let them run with yours or gave me 200 acres for myself which will be all I shall want to keep me independent and I will pay you in work or in money when I can make it if I live for I see I could by cultivating mares and putting the rests in grass I could keep sheep enough in the rest of it to pay you for the land with interest in a few years. Besides the advantage I would be to you in looking after many things