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to paint, but I expect haying will come along, just about that time and Charles will be obliged to attend to that, and as the house must dry some time after painting I am afraid it will be late in the season before we get into it. Lucy and Eliab went over to Exeter last week to the Pisquat conference, - visited Mr. Cutler's and returned through Dover in order to see Isaac; but he himself had gone to Exeter, and from there to Bangor, to attend the Anti Slavery convention of the 20th, - he was kindly entertained at Mr. Harlow's, got a free admission into the Ladies levee in the evening, and Mr Harlow sent Charles F. with his carriage part way home with him. Isaac arrived at Milo Sat. noon and Lucy and old Kate escorted him back to Foxcroft Mond. morning. Lucy writes that they have not heard from you yet, since your letter written just after you got there, and which did not inform us very particularly of your state, as how hard you have to work, whether in the water any, or in the night, what kind of associates you have, and especially what your religious privileges are, and how you improve them? I hope you have got the best boarding place in your power; it is poor economy as I think, for a young person to try to save, by taking up with an inferior boarding place; by having one's place and acquaintance in 'good society' according to the common acceptation of that term, - many advantages accrue, even in a pecuniary point of view, and it seems to me, to be the part of sound wisdom, to look particularly to this subject, of forming acquaintance, whenever going into a new place. There is another respect, in which I fear you do not sufficiently realize your duty and responsibility, I mean as a professed Christian; it seems to me to be plainly the duty of such to make themselves known to other Christians, wherever they are?torn spot that it may appear plainly on which side they are, for there is no