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WAS, as I think I have other- 

 where said, the youngest of our 

 family, and for that reason, rather 

 than for any extraordinary merits 

 of my own, was a person of no Httle im- 

 portance in our simple world. Mary, in 

 her wise fashion, saw that I ran a fair 

 chance of becoming a spoiled child, a 

 mother's child, and a home bird, at an age 

 when hale lads should begin to rough-and- 

 tumble it with other children ; and so, 

 greatly against the dictates of her own and 

 my Mother's indulgent hearts, they decided 

 that I should be sent away from home to 

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