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September 1st 1923 U.S.A. Dear Annie, I received your letter and was pleased to hear that you are well. May Kenny is really a good-looking girl and I am going to write to her right now. There is plenty of girls here (and boys) and you may imagine I am having a good time. You will be quite an Irish girl by this time I suppose with a brogue as thick as fog. Mother told me Tom had a job and I was very pleased. It took your letter ten days to come here. You posted it on the 20th and I received it on the 30th. It surprised me. I thought it would take longer. The boat I am on is going to Florida South America in November to fish for the winter. The skipper wants me to go with him but I don't know whether to go or not yet. It is nearly 2000 miles from here and would take us four or five months to go. The kind of fishing we do is this. We have a crew of twelve men not counting captain, mate, engineer and cook. We steam around until we spot fish (they swim in a school together on the top of the water). Then we get into two small boats and drop the nets and haul them in. My job is to strike them, that is, when we spot them first I go in a small boat by myself and locate them and show the other boats just where they are. Well dear sis I think this is all. Give my love to all my cousins and write me soon. Love from Joe (same address)
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