ove the fences, looking at the grape vines & Peach trees & taking items of their method of cultivation, pruning &c.  Almost forgetting that I belong to Uncle Sam yet for 2 1/2 years.  I am almost constantly thinking about how I will manage affairs when I get out.  I do not dream of defeat.  Our success is in my mind a fixed fact.  Well my Dear what are you doing this morning & where are you, have you got a school yet, & where & where are you boarding, tell me all about it.  I shall not oppose your teaching, because I think it the best thing you can do, you will have better health & spirits than at almost anything else & it will help us both along a little.  O how I do wish this unhappy state of affairs was settled.  I would so much rather be at home with my loved ones.  I would so much rather be carrying on the peaceful arts of husbandry than this everlasting, march, countermarch, shoulder arms, fix bayonets, right dress.  I would rather be commander of a good span of horses & gee, haw, & wield the plough, & at noon & evening & morning be looking ove our strawberries & vines
