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weather, then fair again. So it was with me, but as a 

 rule the atmosphere was SERENE ! and if you should 

 analyze all I have related, you will be convinced it must 

 have been so. 



I made up in devotion, zeal, attention, not solicited, 

 what I was deficient in temperament. I cannot tell the 

 particulars of many incidents, it would be too tedious 

 even for me, and much more so for those who may 

 read them. Only one instance out of many. We had 

 many thousand square yards of soil to remove two or 

 three hundred yards off to build a greenhouse, and all 

 that in wheelbarrows. No horses could be employed, 

 it had to be done by bipeds. It was the heaviest job 

 I have ever had on my hands. I had four or five, 

 sometimes six men, each one with a wheelbarrow, and 

 I filled them up as quick as they could carry them. 

 When we began the son of my Lady employer, told 

 me and those men, with me, too, that I could not con- 

 tinue steady. It was getting late in the season and 

 I was very anxious the work should be done, so that it 

 stimulated my courage, and to stimulate more effica- 

 ciously the energy of my co-bipeds our old Lady sent 

 us, on the spot we were working, a large jug of wine, 

 with bread and cheese, for the men to eat and drink, 

 ad libitum between their meals of course, when eating 

 and drinking. They had to rest of course. It amused 



