procure me two or three pound some way as it will make a fine fence and cheap also. See and get me some of the thorn seed as well. Another thing I would like to get good is onion seed as no English seed that groes here does well. He told me that the best one to get that from was McLean in the scoria, the man I went to see. 1/4 lb of it would be very necessary. All the other seed I will r[a]ise myself. Alex has finished shearing at Paitnie and sold the wool for 1/8 cash, a good price. He sold the sheep also and wrote me he would be here in five or six days more. I want him home as soon as possible as the season is fast advancing so that Gasgoin will commence hauling timber for the house and fencing. We must get a padock made for the rams and horses before the year is over. We ought to have many valuable improvements and keeping at home and steady persivearance is the only way to accomplish that. I had the good luck the other day to kill a wild bi[t]ch and 7 pups. Just close to the sheep she was found. I have another