52/60 You should either have shot this Blewitt or paid him. Now, as the matter stands, it is too late to do the former; and, perhaps, it would be Quixotic to perform the latter. Four thousand seven hundred pounds was a great coup, to be sure. Your brothers and sisters send you their love. I need not add, that you have always the blessings of your affectionate father, "CRABS." "P.S .-- Make it 500, and I will give you my note-of-hand for a thousand.". |