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known so bad water at the Parsonage ; for One of our great 

 Conveniences is Plenty of Water. But this Year it barely serves 

 Us ; & my Fish are great Sufferers. I find the Swallows already 

 begin to troop together. However I cannot but look forward 

 to the ensuing "Winter wth some Expectation of Gratification, 

 since it is to bring me to ye Sight of several Friends, whom I 

 cannot easily transport to Thornhill. My Sister stays to travell 

 wth Us ; we shall fill 2 Post Chaises : But as we are all but in 

 the Crockery Order, we shall be forced to take 3 Nights Lodging 

 on the Eoad in Spite of the Velocity of that Voiture. I shall 

 sell off my nag, when I leave Yorkshire, for he is so skittish 

 that it is quite unsafe for me to ride him : so I shall have 

 one the less to feed thro' ye Winter. My old little Dob is quite 

 useless, being lame as well as old, I keep her on Charity. 



The Ladies return your Civilities. I wish Mrs Woods a good 

 Time, & Health & Prosperity to You & Your's, & a happy Meeting 

 to us this Winter, & am, 



Dear Gil, Ever afftely Your's, 



J. Mulso. 



I observe that you have chang'd Dear Mulso into Dear Sir. 

 Do you chuse that word in ye place of Gil ? 



Letter 120. 



Apl. 25, 1766. 

 Dear Gil : 



I certainly ought to have thanked You for the Favour 

 of your Company in Town, as you undertook your Journey 

 more especially upon Mrs J. Mulso's & my Account ; but as 

 my Brother sent another Invitation, which 1 had hoped would 

 have fetch'd You up again, I deferred doing it. It certainly 

 gave me very great Satisfaction to see & embrace you, & to 

 find you better than expectation had formed You. It likewise 

 makes me more sanguine in my Hopes of seeing You in the 

 North. As to seeing you at Selbourne, according to your very 

 kind Invitation, that you will find to be impossible ; when 

 I inform you that we troop off Bag & Baggage for Thornhill, 

 on Thursday next May 1st Mrs Mulso, Jenny, & Self, make 

 a Sort of Visiting Journey ; for we stop at Admiral Young's 

 in Hertfordshire ; & afterwards at Histon near Cambridge at 

 Mr Ekins's : So I cannot say on what Day we shall arrive at 

 Thornhill, but by God's Blessing I hope to be there before 

 the Middle of the Week after we set out. Both Jenny & 

 Myself have been ill, since I saw You, but I thank God we 

 are pretty well again. I begin this letter & shall possibly send 

 it from Chelsea. I sent a little Message from Town by Miss 

 Littleton to excuse me to you: as a Part of our Family will 



