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when our house was struck with lightning would you have loved me more & thought more of my manhood if I had fretted over it & made you & myself miserable about it. Our house was injured when we seemed least able to meet the loss, when my health was very poor & we had no money. But would it have done any good to have sat down & tried to make you & myself believe that we were the most unfortunate beings on earth. Was it not much better to cheerfully submit to the fact & to try & find in the misfortune tokens of God's care & love as we did, & go to work as best we could & repair the damage. When last fall I was thrown from that load & nearly killed would it have been more manly for me to have made you & myself miserable by complaints, than to be cheerful & thankful that I was hurt no worse than I was. In just the same spirit I looked upon the farm as our