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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



"UP THE ROAD TO THE BARN I WENT AND THERE I FOUND HIM." 



"I PAID WHAT I FELT WAS A DEBT." 



ford has clone more for me than can 

 be repaid by a few thousand dollars." 



A few, I exclaimed ; I heard it was 

 many. 



"Oh, only forty-seven thousands, and 

 I owed more than that. I believe every 

 man owes a debt to others, and he 

 should pay as much of it as he can." 



Then Judge Clason told me of his 

 father, of his brothers and sisters, but 

 he had not proceeded far before he 

 said as if still thinking of my queries, 

 "I admit I had a hard time getting 

 started, but do not give me too much 

 credit. When I was a boy I worked 

 eight months for a farmer for fifty 

 dollars, but in later life things went 

 more easily, and Stamford helped me 

 very much." 



Then in reminiscent mood he contin- 

 ued, "Used to be able to get best men 

 in haying time at a dollar a day and 

 board. That house down by Nonsense 

 Fort where you have been I built in 

 Civil War times. Could get the best 

 carpenter and mason at a dollar a day. 

 Hemlock boards and 'siding' one cent 

 a foot. I dug the cellar, had a man and 

 three yoke of oxen. Cost in all only 

 about eight dollars. At one time in 



