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not have to wean yourself, from them, +, at best [underlined], be tantalized with the sight, + thought of things you cannot use, + feel an inextinguishable hankering [phrase underlined] for them as long as you live. Many a fine fellow sleeps in an untimely [underlined] grave, not because he was not aware that his bad habits were shortening his life, but because he suffered more in the abandonment of these habits, from hankering, than from the dread of death [phrase underlined]. 1/2 an hour before dinner [all underlned]. do you wish to hear me tell that I have done since breakfast? I have harnessed Janie, + waiting upon your grandfather home - opened the hay I raked yesterday - dug a bushel of potatoes in the garden, over + above the usual daily routine of little services. An adjourned meeting was held at Canton, yesterday, to determine the question of extending our Railroad, + I hear, this morning, that the $50,000 is raised, + that the road will go ahead. If this be true, the work of grading will probably commence immediately. You will dread to see them cutting through my ground, where it is most valuable; cutting up those venerable high top sweetings [underlined], on whose fruit we are now luxuriating; destroying the house lots I have been reserving for you [underlined] + John [underlined], for which I have been offered $600. Well, well, I must meet my fate like a man. it will not help the matter to fret - will it, my son? I don't know but I write you too much. Do I? Give my regards to John. Yours affectionately, Zadoc Long [symbol below signature] Persis + Jennet [?] have done down to see Jane Cole.