or honourable way of feeling in the McColl but you please yourself if your sister are not worthy. I answering there letters all my efforts to bring them up as I have done with there own assistance is [in] vain. It would be much better for you to write themselves and there you will find out the truth and also if you send them any money let it be to themselves as depend upon they are one and all worthy of it. I have gave them within this last three years all I could spare but thank God they have all good situations at preasant and each of them better liked than another. I have seen them all this time and also your letters to Uncle. Flora Ann was in the want of some money and he requested me to gave it her. If you have sent him any to gave them I think it strange he should hold it back for his own use. I must now my dear Donald pause on this point and let you know about myself and how I have been situated since in the U.S. States. I commanded a barque belonging to New York for 2 years and a half when she unfortunately was lost and have not done anything for six month but I am much respected and doing business with my owners and if I only could get from