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has wants a light-house, and I promised him when I left 

 home to see you about it.&quot; &quot; Well,&quot; says the President, 

 &quot; that hardly comes under my direction ; I shall have to 

 refer you to the Light-house Department.&quot; &quot;Well,&quot; 

 says I, &quot;I don t care what you do with it. I want to say 

 that Jake Frink is rather a poor farmer, don t manage his 

 own business well, and I don t think he would manage 

 yours any better. His light don t shine on the farm, and 

 I don t think he would make it shine in a Light-house.&quot; 

 u Squire Bunker, you are a brick, but you don t under 

 stand the way they do business. If a man can t do any 

 thing for himself, he thinks he is- just fit to manage Uncle 

 Sam s business. I will give you, Squire Bunker, the 

 Light-house in Hookertown, with great pleasure.&quot; I 

 assured the President that I was still acting as Justice of 

 the Peace, and should have to decline the honor. 

 Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ., 

 Hookertown, Feb. 10th, 1864. 



NO. 71. TIM BUNKER ON THE SANITARY 

 COMMISSION AND THE WAR. 



MR. EDITOR. I was astonished to hear from your note 

 of yesterday that there had been some considerable 

 inquiry, if not more, about my not writing for the paper 

 so much as common. I take the first leisure day I have 

 had in four months to tell you all about it. You see, I 

 always had my hands full to keep up with my farming 

 and writing, and attending to the duties of Justice of the 

 Peace, before John went to the war. You see, the boy 



