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Ralph [underlined] expects to go to Portland + Bangor this week. He is thinking some, in my opionion, of removing from this place, in the course of a year or two. He proposed to sell out his interest in the Store to me [underlined], in such a manner as that it might pass for a joke. But I think he would [underlined] sell, in earnest, if I would buy. Is it best for me to have anything more to do with shop keeping in Buckfield? Did you conclude to exchange your cloth for a coat? Here, comes Grandfather Long, early with his long cane, - on hand for Election. I pass-ed thro the village just now + met politicians of all colors. Tom. Bridgham + Amory Allen were having a nice little quarrel in the morning, so as to be cocked for the afternoon. the subject of dispute was, that Thom.s had reported, that he could prove, + would prove, after Election, by irreproachable witnesses, that E. Atwood sometime last winter, inquired of somebody in Portland, if he knew any place in the city where a man could get a glass of liquor. This is a grave charge against Mr. Atwood, and, I understand, will have an important influence upon the next year's potato crop [underlined]. If Mr. Atwood did [underlined] make any such unhallowed inquiry, at Portland, in despite of a good conscience, + the Liquor Law [underlined], and Mr. B. [underlined] says that Mr. C. [underlined] told D. [underlined] that E. [underlined] heard F. [underlined] to say he hadn't any doubt of it, - he ought to be tarred + feathered + rode on a rail + otherwise dealt by according to the spirit of the [?]. Fudge [underlined]! Try, my son, to get the gloves for Susan. Try Geo. [?] Z. Long