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good-morning. As I was about to mount Paul aftei* 

 breakfast, she asked the privilege of a ride on him, 

 and, bounding into the saddle, galloped down the road 

 with the grace of an Indian. When she bade me 

 goodbye at the gate, where her father and mother 

 were standing to see me off, she asked me in her un- 

 sophisticated way to remember her as my *' Centennial 

 girl,'' which I solemnly promised to do, and as I 

 looked back from the road I could see her waving 

 her handkerchief as a parting salute. 



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Farm House, 

 Near Wickliffe, Ohio, 

 July Fifth. 



Starting rather late from Painesville, a town just 

 beyond Mr. Lee's, and riding leisurely during the 

 day, I found it necessary to keep to the road until 

 dark, in order to place myself as near to Cleveland 

 as possible, before halting. Reached Willougiiby, the 

 seat of a Methodist College, nineteen miles east of 

 Cleveland, just before sundown, where I was tempted 

 to stay over night, knowing that to ride farther would 

 be gloomy and uninteresting, but in my eagerness to 

 reach the '^ Forest City," towards which I had. looked 

 for several days, I pressed forward. 



As there was no hotel at WicklifPe, I passed through 

 the little hamlet of that name and secured lodgings 

 at the farm house of Thomas Lloyd, an old settler of 

 Lake County, and a very large land-owner. He told 

 me the history of his pioneer life in this section of 

 Ohio, and of his start in the pursuit of a fortune, 



