sale and I bought considerable stuff including a rollewr, set of harrows $17.50, hay 7.25, rope, double trees 2.25, high-chair .75, old table .10, patwent bed 7.25 aqnd some wood 1.25. Frank backed my note for 6 months. I went down town to band practice to-night and ha da pretty good blow. I was the only bass there and we have a lot of heavy new music Mr. parks was at Aunty's when I went down. He was there for dinner and spent most of the after noon telling about the sestate and from wehat Quint told me, his story is more like a page from an Arabian Night's Entertainment than colkd facts & figures oergaining to us. Mr. parks has no dount whatever about fDad. being the legal heir and seems to have no doubt about him proving his claim although hesyays there are seven others in England who think they have a claim and they are wealthy & influential people some of them peers. He said a rough estimate of the ecxtent of the capital fund would be two a and a million dollars and that the annual ncome was about £20,000 after the 35% succession dues were subytacted. He had a book showing how it was all invested and at seems that a thousand actes or so of land