yarn which I know well you will appreciate although you will not acknowledge the fact now after having received your blowing up epistle dont think that you are going to get any news from me No. No thank you. more particularly as you cannot give your attention to a quiet letter but the excuse I make for you is simply this, that you have been a since you have been at Ahuriri and therefore are excusable. By the way you omitted to say whether you got rid of your wool. I am afraid you were too grappling (?) for the fractional part of the dauber,/you should have taken that fellows offer which you named in one of those very inky notes of yours when one word is so written as to fill the space of a line thereby fondly imagining that you have written a long letter. You will be astonished to hear that I am becoming quite fast lately. I am always out at hops of some