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Brother J.Mc.

  I did expect to intend to go to your city and conference with you by the words of our mouths on or rather, upon the very next day after this same day of Sebec Pic Nic.
 You did advise me I believe that I should do something, or labor, somehow, "to profit". Well I have been laboring very essentially upon this poor man Rich his haying. By the way, permit me here to commend this man, who will probably be the bearer of this Epistle to your kind and respectful consideration; he being as I do fully consider, a very first rate good sort of a man, in fact a very clever sort of a man.
 Well, I most forget what I began to write, but there is an old and very venerable proverb, one by the way, in which I take much comfort often time, which positively affirms that "The Lame & the Lazy shall be provided for." Well so it happened in this case that I being at the time diligently laboring in the vineyard, I mean the hayfield, that is on the cart pitching of the hay in the Barn, of this same man of whom I have before spoke