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family. John came back with that young buck of a re 

 porter you sent, quite crestfallen declared he wouldn t 

 have gone to the depot if he had known you were going 

 to disappoint him. He says he has made up his mind, 

 since reading that account,that all the green things in the 

 world are not in the country. Whether he means that some 

 of the houses in the city are painted green, or the folks 

 in them have that look, perhaps your reporter can tell. 

 The girls, however, were amazingly tickled with the man s 

 description of the Hookertown women, and are a good 

 deal provoked that you didn t publish the poetry and all. 

 They say if you will put in the part that you threw out, 

 they will pay double price for it, as an advertisement. I 

 suspect they have a great itching to know if he said any 

 thing more about them. You had better keep him at 

 home in future, if you want him to do any thing more 

 for the paper. 



I told you, awhile ago, that if you wanted to see any 

 thing of the Hookertown of the present generation, you 

 should come soon. I was a good deal more of a prophet 

 than I thought of at the time, for the paper was not dry 

 on which I wrote it, before I heard that a tile factory had 

 been started in my own neighborhood. 



&quot; Who would have tho t it ?&quot; exclaimed Seth Tvviggs, 

 as he knocked the ashes out of his third pipe, and rose to 

 go. &quot; Why, Esq. Bunker, that is the strangest thing that 

 has happened in my day. I should as soon expect to hear 

 they were catching whale in the Connecticut River.&quot; 



&quot; And do you think there will be a call for the tiles ?&quot; 

 inquired the minister, whose conservatism was a little 

 disturbed by the advent of a tile factory in his parish. 



&quot;Trust Miles Standish for that,&quot; answered Deacon 

 Smith. &quot; The fact is, Standish never went into any 

 thing yet, that he did not see his way out of it before he 

 started.&quot; 



&quot; Blamed if he hasn t got it all ciphered out,&quot; said 



