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5 yesterday for noon I helped him to dam the meadow brook and to make a water wheel for it. My own days of juvenile mill
wrighting came back with very full recollection After making a few suggestions I left him to plan my work for his spluttering
wabbling wheel he might judge it capable of performing well, I was pleased to see how illegible ily he set about his work.
In the afternoon he planted a pole ten feet long in the mud opposite his new precious property, then tieing a tin cup to a
thread twenty feet long he passed the end of it over the pole and attached it to the water wheel shaft, then starting his
mill raised and lowered the cupful of water with a serio illegible motion exactly like that of the asending flag at your society
Fourth of July