Maggie Flaugh letter to sister (Belle?), Nov. 1, 1889

Dear Sister, I take pleasure this morning in writing to you we are all well and hope you are the same Pa said I should write and tell you he hadent time to come over and get the stock he cant afford to come and get them and bring them home for 25.00 he has got to haul two stacks of hay and build a stable and haul 10 ton of coal 9 miles to town and the house to fix up for winter pa said if charle would bring the cattle over he would winter them for that but he cant come and