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nearly filled with " grist " were divided each in 

 the middle, one placed in front and the other at 

 the rear of the saddle and were thus transported 

 on horseback about twelve miles up the Lake fol- 

 lowing the bridle path; then the grist was loaded 

 into a skiff and carried diagonally across the Lake 

 to the mill. In those days it was a sun-to-sun 

 job with a great part of the night thrown in to get 

 a grist to and from the mill. In 1874, I saw that 

 overshot wheel still intact, although the mill itself 

 and the water too, in summer were gone. It 

 was said that the settlers for twenty miles around 

 had been required to raise the frame of the mill 

 at Seneca Falls because of the enormous size of the 

 timbers of which it was constructed. g 



There are a few personal incidents of my boy- 

 hood that remain peculiarly vivid in my memory. 

 The first is a recollection of myself as a small boy, 

 hiding under the currant bushes, but I cannot fix 

 the exact date of that long-to-be-remembered oc- 

 casion. It happened in this wise : my father was 

 gathering the winter's supply of beets from the 

 garden and piling them near the wood-pile ad- 

 joining the lane, so that the tops could be fed to 

 the cows as they came up from the pasture. I 

 undertook to cut off the tops of the beets with an 

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