and that will bring his price to about 50 or £60 pounds as I do not value the sheep more. I bought a mare and sold her for £45 and I give 40 ewes for her. She is a fine mare but I wanted the money and I could not keep her. The other tow mares I bought, the sheepherd will take one and the bulock driver the other. We shall be drafting in ten days time and you shall have the totall number of lambs and sheep seperate. I send you the number shorn but we cannot give you the sexes till we draft. You need not send me aney money till you hear from me. In haste dear brother Yours allways Alexander McLean