In this I do not mean you shall go off to St.Louis, or the lead-mines, or the gold-mines in California; but I mean for you to go at it, for the best wages you can get, close to home, in Coles County.

Now, if you will do this you will soon be out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again.
But if I should now clear you out of debt, next year you would be in just as deep as ever.

You say you would almost give your place in heaven for $70 or $80.

Then you value your place in heaven very cheap; for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work.

You say, if I will furnish you the money, you will deed me the land, and if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession.
Nonsense! If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it?
You have always been kind to me, and I do not mean to be unkind to you.