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friend. He is a physician, whose practice required him 

 to keep two horses, and where do you think he kept them 

 during the inclemency of a wintry storm? In the stable, 

 do you say. Well, it was in a large one, then, which na- 

 ture alone had any hand in building. For no other had 

 he, and therefore in the morning, I had no scruples of 

 conscience against bringing my horses out of the corner 

 of the fence where they had spent the night, and hitching 

 on to the carriage for a 14 mile drive over a bleak prairie, 

 facing a south-east snow storm, to a little town in the 

 same county called Woodburn, where I spent the balance 

 of the Sabbath in very comfortable quarters for both 

 man and beast. Now, I shall not mention the name of 

 this really good man, though to us he has an odd way of 

 showing his goodness to the good creatures created for 

 his use, but that is all owing to his "brought'n up" in a 

 section of the United States that "I reckon" you will not 

 wish me to tell you lies south of that celebrated line of 

 Mason and Dixon. 



I found my host, (Dr. Grimsted,) a very intelligent 

 Englishman, who, together with many of his countrymen 

 of the same stamp, have settled in and about this place, 

 which is located upon good prairie, scarce of timber, in- 

 convenient to mills, and possesses rather too great a share 

 of that kind of "go-day, come-day" population, which fill 

 the southern part of Illinois with a class of men that are 

 content to live not only without stables, but without 

 many of the other comforts that constantly surround the 

 cabin of the eastern emigrant; the contrast between 

 which and their own, will do more to urge them forward 

 to do likewise, than all the agricultural papers in the 

 world ; for them they never read. 1 



Three miles from Woodburn, is the village or rather 

 settlement of "Bunker hill ;" where I found a monument 



1 This rather uncomplimentary description of Woodburn pro- 

 voked a defense from the postmaster, Jonathan Huggins. See 

 Cultivator, n. s. 2:205 (July, 1845). Robinson wrote a somewhat 

 similar article to the Prairie Farmer (5:68-69, March, 1845) which 

 also brought forth a contradiction (5:82-83, April, 1845). 



