Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 4

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Jannyp at Sep 16, 2020 07:37 PM

Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 4

as the people up in Old Mass
all classes here indulge
in the disgusting habit of
chewing snuff (poor whites
and they are nearly all as poor
as job's turkey if not a little
more so) Negroes and the
better class of whites one of
our soldiers was up at Newbern
a few days ago and he saw
and remarked to a
companion a very fine looking
young lady he hardly got the
words out of his mouth before
she spit out an amount of
snuf sufficient for a good
handfull and from what I
have seen myself I don't think
he strecth it a great deal its
effect on the persons that use

Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 4

as the people up in Old [?] the all classes here indulge in the disgusting habit of chewing snuff (poor whites and they are nearly all as poor as job's [turkey?] if not a little more so) Negroes and the better class of whites one of our soldiers was up at Newbern a few days ago and he saw and remarked to a companion a very fine looking young lady he hardly got the words out of his mouth before she spit out an mount of snuf sufficient for a good handfull and from what I have seen myself I don't think he [?] it a great deal its effect on the persons that use