Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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his folks sit there, down below.33 The whole secret of his not being sick is his happy nature. {H}e is con- tinually laughing and joking, and 5 will not give way. The Englishman is very melancholy, and I am very anxious. 'Tis all about you, were you with me I do not believe I would be sick. If I 10 even knew how you are [and] what your mother has been saying I do not think I would even then be sick. The Captain is always trying to cheer me by saying 15 something about you, such as, "when your wife comes out I'll give her the same berth as you have now." "You'll not be so sick Frank when coming down to New York 20 to meet your wife." "Were Miss Wallace here she would not be near so sick as what you are," and many other similar expressions. [End of Page 9]
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