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none the better all this better a peice of ? in winter scarcely any thing looks more dreary than the Sea or Sea Shore in winter. Where could have been the Good looking County. It looks bad enough in pleasant summer weather. as for farming, there is no such thing as fencing material in the county & the Soil does not bear bragging. Second head of Scolding. I do not like your uncharitableness. Perhaps you call it " minding your own business". It is crabbedness. Why could you not like a decent feller, state the circumstances. When you left Bangor, & for what, how you left the people, & the news. where, how, & for what you went, your success, prospects &c. In fact why should you not write whatever you knew about yourself or any body else, which you knew would interest me. Such a course would have been decent, reasonable, gentlemanly, and brotherly. Your course is to be sure better than not writing at all. But is it right to do well when you are so abundantly able to do better My present condition and prospects are favorable. I am a Resident Engineer at Northfield, now the principal office of the Vt. & Mass. R.R. My success & advancement have been beyond my expectations, circumstances having been most propitious. The Engineer of this Road, Edwards, with whom I engaged, left this road. I chose to remain with Mr Field with whom I have been most of the time. Under Johnson, the new Cheif Engineer, Mr