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2 will rest in this your first enterprise a downs? worthy the name; and if, as you seemed to intimate might be the case,
you build a whole town. I hope you will be very ferrteekeler? illegible begin well remember the nation to whom you belong,
and the age in which you live - its streets must be troddin just by? black gentoos pagan Turks but by the white fexin Coaing
people of the sons of Japheth, and its squares and avenues must be shone upon by the illegible of the illegible teenth century.
May your town be spared from the attacks of cholera and all the dire epidemics of the day, and be noted more for its schools
churches than for arsenals, castles, cannon? P S I think you might invent a better mode of watering the streets in dusty days
than these barrels mounted on drays A Dan Dan .---------------------- 3 I am glad I am that you have found a shop where
so many handles are made, it will be just the place for you, and I shall be very much interested in the working of the lathes,
Tell me as soon as you can what is considered a days work in different kinds of handles, but be careful not to say much about
my invention. I think of attending to that after finishing this scythe. John Keens? is going to move to the south end of the
town in about a week. I am sorry to say that the sawyer who took your place sawed his hand dreadfully the second day after
he commenced. his accident happened about as your did - his hand before it was dressed seemed to be torn in pieces, the bone
of one finger joint was found by the