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That night I went to my home in Ellsworth 

 County, bade my dear ones good-by for an indefinite 

 length of time, and was back at Buffalo again at 

 midnight of the following day. My boys met me at 

 the station with my roll of blankets, tools, and bag- 

 gage, and away I went to " fresh fields and pastures 



new." 



