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Aunt Polly s eyes. Poor woman ! I shouldn t wonder if 

 there was something else in them besides smoke some 

 times. 



Yours to command, 

 ^ TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



Hookertown , June 6th, 1863. 



NO. 68. TIM BUNKER ON STARTING A SUGAR 

 MILL. 



&quot; Who d have thought of ever seeing a sugar mill in 

 Hookertown !&quot; exclaimed Seth Twiggs, as he looked at 

 that new institution just put up on the Shadtown road. 



&quot; And such lots of sorghum too !&quot; said Deacon Smith. 

 &quot; Almost every farmer has a patch.&quot; 



&quot; The age of meracles ain t past yet,&quot; said Tucker in a 

 meditative mood. 



&quot; I wonder if there 11 be any rum made of the leavings,&quot; 

 inquired Jones expectantly, recalling his experience on a 

 sugar plantation. 



&quot; Not a bit of it,&quot; said Seth, with a twinkle in his eye 

 and an extra puff at his pipe. &quot; Suckers will go dry 

 in these parts.&quot; 



Ten years ago, I should as soon have thought of seeing 

 an elephant in my barn-yard, as of seeing a sugar mill in 

 Hookertown. In the first place there was nothing to 

 make sugar of, except a few maple trees, and they did not 

 require a mill. And then there was not enterprise enough 

 to start a new project of that magnitude. We most of 

 us believe in foreordination, and had not put down sugar 



