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4 the saw table after he had gone to the surgeon, one finger was sawed off about the second joint, another close to the
palm, and the others together with the thumb terribly lacer- ated -. Another man a carpenter was fired yesterday to take his
place at 2 1/4 per day-. French in six easy lessons left for his country home without his fortune a few days ago, illegible
our own circle all is unchanged The weather is not so bad. I recd a letter from Mary Hark Hattie Trout lately They both congratulated
me upon having Danie to care for and comfort me. I felt awful lonesome a day or two after you left, the table illegible out
of order without you Louis was particularly sorry about Dan leaving Osgood Smith have not asked for you. I suppose your path
has illegible illegible theirs yet. Write me a long letter soon. May you be quite? successful in your new illegible and live
to realize your best anticipations Yours in brotherly love M illegible 1 Ind' Aug 12th illegible Dear Danie, I
am really glad to hear that you have found a shop so very near the thing you wish, and that you have so good a chance of getting
into it. We were all considerably an illegible with your house building explo illegible You beat all as a scotchman for Yankee
brass, but in a new country a smart man needs to dabble his fingers in everything and every trade even before he learns their
names, and so you have taen up the carpenter trade, I think they c illegible There is no better exponent of the point to civilization,
taste, and general refinement to which nations and individuals arrive, than their houses, and I trust that you The bridge
at the Hollow? has fallen down