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carious livelihood by selling brushes and 

 pills through New Jersey, lower New York, 

 and eastern Pennsylvania. 



I quickly found that condolences were 

 thrown away on him. He prided himself 

 on the extent of his acquaintance, and the 

 fact that many of the farmers cheerfully 

 gave him a meal and lodging when he 

 appeared. He was particular about his 

 lodging. Beds he did not countenance; 

 but a blanket on the porch or in the hay- 

 mow suited him exactly. He believed in 

 the virtues of air, and when storm-bound 

 in the mountains made no bones of lying 

 under a rock or fallen tree, however 

 much his bones may have made of him, 

 with a burning log at his feet. He had 

 not been ill for an hour since he began his 

 wandering life. The tramps never worried 

 him, and he was able to sell enough to 

 keep out of the poorhouse. In winter he 

 lived on a farm with a man who drove a 

 butcher's wagon, and had no legs. 



This little old man, with his butternut 

 clothes, had no book education ; but there 

 was a marked sympathy with nature in 



