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If the thing works half as well as you claim, there can t 

 fail to be a better demand for tile than there ever was for 

 brick.&quot; 



This Hookertown clay bed is one of the best you ever 

 saw. You work right into a side hill, where the clay is 

 fifty feet deep, or more. It lies in nice layers about the 

 thickness of slate, and is entirely free from sand and 

 gravel. It makes a very tough tile. There is clay 

 enough right here in this valley, close to a navigable river, 

 to make all the tiles the State will ever want. 



The first tile factory in Connecticut is a great event, and 

 will work as great changes among us as the first cotton 

 factory did in Rhode Island. It will double the products 

 of our farms in less than ten years, if the farmers will use 

 them. It is wonderful to see the waking up on this sub 

 ject. I don t know as I ought to speak in meeting, but I 

 thought you would like to know that Jake Frink has 

 engaged five thousand tiles, and is going to put them 

 down this fall. It wont be a year before Jotham Spar- 

 rowgrass will have them down in his drained swamp ; but 

 he will never own that he is draining land. It will only 

 be another contrivance to keep out the muskrats and the 

 tadpoles. A very curis man is Uncle Jotham. 

 Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



Hookertown, August 3d, 1858. 



[REMARKS. We are really sorry for the disappointment 

 felt by our Hookertown friends, at our failure to appear at 

 the wedding, but could not help it possibly, under the 

 circumstances. We will do anything by way of atone 

 ment attend Sally s second day wedding, or the next 

 wedding that comes off in Hookertown, should any of the 

 damsels see fit to get up one on our account. We shall 

 not dare to send any more reporters. ED.] 



