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It is well those Shingles of Charles are Cedar; they would rot before the reach Bangor. What does the man do for Provisions and taxes, I should like to know. Is he, or are they, likely to do any thing towards getting some money for me this Summer? It certainly ought to be done.

   Suppose I can, what do you think of the expediency of my getting upon the Rail Road anywhere? of intending to make myself an Engineer? Should I be fitted for such business, or likely to succeed in it?
 I know that I can do better in something else than I can in School teaching, for I dislike it too much ever to take sufficient interest in it, reach extended success. The Whole heart must be in any thing to ensure success in it. Mine, I believe could not be in teaching as a permanent profession is it not, the quicker I give it up entirely the better for me anyway? If I can earn say from twenty or thirty to fifty or sixty dolls. per month besides board & references, to begin with, as an Engineer assistant, had I not better go into it? that is if I can get the chance. And Why can I not? and succeed in it? An active, able bodied, rugged young man, familiar with labor, and exposure, possessed of mind, and of Education, with a disposition to do. What hinders

Please to write again soon as convenient

                                                     Aff.  I.S. Metcalf.