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Mrs. Willis is sick with slow fever; and Mrs. David Sweat, with Bowel's disease. Does your [underlind] health continue good? How many pounds of flesh have you worked on since you went to Boston? And how is George's health? Has he fully recovered from the effects of his sudden change from heat [underlined] to cold [underlined] that he underwenton the great Reception Day [underlined]? Your "old uncle Artemus" has gone clean over on to the further [underlined] side of Locofocoison [?]. He voted for the Chandler [underlined] Ticket out + out. +told me, in answer to my inquiry into his conduct, that he had left the Whigs [underlined] to return no more. His change is less surprising in as much as he has always had the external [underlined] appearance of a loco; don't you think so? Nevertheless, I feel sorry for his apostacy Poor old uncle Artemus [all underlined]! Lost forever, to the Whigs! The Wildcats have taken him + devoured him soul + body. You will see him never again as a whig [underlined]. Only think of it. "It strikes me [underlined] doleful." Zadoc, I must give you a moderate dose of caution [underlined] in every letter. The subject on my mind now is, that you are too confiding [underlined]: an error into which young [underlined] men of generous [underlined] temper are very liable to run. You must not communicate all you know, + all you think, to every one that calls himself, or herself [underlined], your friend. if you do, you will risk much by exposure to imposition, ridicule + treachery [underlined]. Take care of your own Secrets [all underlined]. And if you will have some friend in whom to put un-limited [underlined] trust, choose such as never flatter you [underlined], but such as has courage faithfully to tell you your faults [underlined]. Open rebuke is better than secret love [all underlined].