Letters to a Friend 



maps and write out notes. So you see that for 

 a year or two I will be very busy. I have settled 

 with Hutchings and have no dealings with him 

 now. 



I think that next spring I will have to guide 

 a month or two for pocket money, although I 

 do not like the work. I suppose I might live for 

 one or two seasons without work. I have five 

 hundred dollars here, and I have been sending 

 home money to my sisters and brothers, 

 perhaps about twelve or fifteen hundred dol 

 lars, and a man in Canada owes me three or 

 four hundred dollars more, which I suppose I 

 could get if I was in need, but you know that 

 the Scotch do not like to spend their last dol 

 lar. Some of my friends are badgering me to 

 write for some of the magazines, and I am al 

 most tempted to try it, only I am afraid that 

 this would distract my mind from my work 

 more than the distasteful and depressing labor 

 of the mill or of guiding. What do you think 

 about it ? 



k Suppose I should give some of the journals 

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