I am thankful to tell you that Alex is keeping quite sober and attending to his work. He does not at all behave well to Gray. He is very impish to him. Mr G did offer to keep the amount in the shearing but I don't think Alex cares about it but I think you should ask G to do it for you may reley on them being well kept. It is likely that I may go down as Alex says that he can not come home at nights during the shearing and if Mr Gray is up I don't care about being