I have not been well for 6 weeks but keep going the most of the time. I cannot get to rest long enough to get stout. The rest are all well. Times are hard here. Money is scarce.
Provisions are plenty.
It is a hard time to collect, but I can collect more money here than we did there. I am gaining practice all the time. Not braging nor nothing so but the People generly say that I am the best doctor in Arkansas. That is those I have done practice for. It is not me but the practice, for I cannot feel like any body but Andy.