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cutting a cord of wood, eight feet long, four feet high, 

 and four feet deep, at a merchant's, who had a tract of 

 land and a saw-mill about two miles from the town. 

 Although hard work at first, yet when I got used to 

 it, I found that on an average I could cat and pile a 

 cord a day. 



After fourteen days' hard work, I resolved to go to 

 Cincinnati for my letters, and, above all, to recover my 

 health in its superior climate, then to return and visit 

 the hills. I had cut eighteen cords, and as the man 

 saw that I was poor, sickly, and in a hurry to go 

 away, he cheated me out of two dollars by giving me 

 bad coin, a fact which 1 discovered on board the " Per- 

 sian " steamer, on my passage to Cincinnati. I was 

 kindly received by all my old friends, and established 

 myself in a new suit of clothes, for which, however, I 

 had to run in debt. 



I looked about for work ; every tavern in the place 

 was crammed full of Germans, ready to do any thing 

 ibr bare food : whole families were in a helpless state. 

 Fine stories had been told them that they could gain a 

 dollar a day for every sort of work, and when they 

 arrived, farmers were paying only five or six dollars a 

 month, and could not employ four fifths of the appli- 

 cants. I pitied the poor creatures, though no better 

 off myself. I took many a long walk in vain, looking 

 for employment, when Vogel offered me an occupation 

 I should never have thought of myself, viz., making 

 pill-boxes. Vogel thought he would try "Emperor's 

 Pills," of which he had the prescription. lie was very 

 clever in such matters, but he required little round 

 boxes, resembling the original as imported. We set to 



