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man offered to work for his meat, to avoid 

 expences. From this pitiful tale, Mr. Stump 

 told him he might go to the mill : he would 

 give him a line to the foreman at the mill, 

 to take him in : Mr. Stump told him his men 

 lived on plain food, but wholesome, which 

 was salt fish, smoked beef "and smoked bacon, 

 tea or coffee, with water for their drink, and 

 he was to work as a labourer for little or no 

 wages. In all probability, this half-brother 

 of theirs was in such embarrassed circum- 

 stancesthatthey would never get their money 

 again; which is frequently the case when 

 any one in that country writes to his friends 

 in England to come to them. Now, to enu- 

 merate the misfortunes of this family: — The 

 father is dead, and his affairs neglected ; the 

 elder brother mad ; a poor woman, his 

 wife, with two children, at very high ex* 

 pences, without any friend near her, to 

 give her either assistance or comfort ; this 

 young man, thirty miles from his pregnant 

 wife, without any home, himself working 



