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I expect to feel the most however at parting with this old desk of mine! I have stood by it, and studied by it, and wrote by it, so long, and so much, that I shall hardly know how to get along without it.l Would'nt (sic) it be a grand article of furniture to transport from place to place! Especially if I should happen to travel on foot as Case and I did from Portland the other day. However I believe I have got about done with that method of getting about. It does not hardly pay. I have learned to reckon the value of my own bones & sinews a little higher as compared with some other things. However friend Case and I did not have a very uncomfortable walk, and I guess it did not hurt so much. I find that Mrs Peasie at Bangor felt almost hurt about it that I did not call there again. Nobody to blame for it though but herself, or rather her Paddy servant girl! I expect the folks here I was offended about it. No Matter. How would it answer for me to go on through here, pass examination &c. and then, Cut my degree, diploma, and all that. Could not I do without it think? It would not make any