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Friday 10th Sept [all underlined]  I rose sometime before
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sunrise this morning.  The early air, in such weather as this, is refreshing + invigorating.  If you don't believe it just try
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an experiment.  One morning, rise before sunrise, walk to
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the Common, + with your chest full of fresh air [last 2 words underlined], return
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for a minute into your sleeping room - where you will probably find John Addison [name underlined] half alive
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+ half dead, breathing with difficulty the poison
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ous gas that collect when animals [underlined] are shut up
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in small unventilated places. - + see if  you won't
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believe what I say.
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    I see Wm. Andrews walking over the Bridge.  I wonder if he would like to marry another fortune [?].  [last 2 words underlined]
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    I believe I have written you that Mr. Small
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talks some of leaving us.  He has a pressing [underlined] call to go to
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China - 6 miles above Waterville.
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    Washington will leave here for the Aroostic
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in 2 weeks. Tell John Addison I cash [underlined] the Sweet
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note for him.  I pay the face of the note.  I would
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have taken a sharing off, if Addison had sent
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word that he could afford it, + that [underlined] he wished me very much [underlined last 2 words] to do it.  I am not greedy
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of gain, but I must have some better way of
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making the means for paying expenses, than
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fatting Levi Gammon's pigs, unless I can re=
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trench, or this world abates my tax.
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    Tell Addison to write home, soon [underlined].
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              Your's used outted [?] Z. Long

Revision as of 14:39, 20 March 2017

�26 Friday 10th Sept [all underlined] I rose sometime before sunrise this morning. The early air, in such weather as this, is refreshing + invigorating. If you don't believe it just try an experiment. One morning, rise before sunrise, walk to the Common, + with your chest full of fresh air [last 2 words underlined], return for a minute into your sleeping room - where you will probably find John Addison [name underlined] half alive + half dead, breathing with difficulty the poison ous gas that collect when animals [underlined] are shut up in small unventilated places. - + see if you won't believe what I say.

    I see Wm. Andrews walking over the Bridge.  I wonder if he would like to marry another fortune [?].  [last 2 words underlined]
    I believe I have written you that Mr. Small

talks some of leaving us. He has a pressing [underlined] call to go to China - 6 miles above Waterville.

    Washington will leave here for the Aroostic 

in 2 weeks. Tell John Addison I cash [underlined] the Sweet note for him. I pay the face of the note. I would have taken a sharing off, if Addison had sent word that he could afford it, + that [underlined] he wished me very much [underlined last 2 words] to do it. I am not greedy of gain, but I must have some better way of making the means for paying expenses, than fatting Levi Gammon's pigs, unless I can re= trench, or this world abates my tax.

    Tell Addison to write home, soon [underlined].
             Your's used outted [?] Z. Long