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which gave me a bit of the early history of Ohio 

 from another standpoint. It may seem odd that dur- 

 ing the "flying visits^' which I sometimes paid to 

 these small places, there was opportunity to hear any- 

 thing about them, but country folk are accustomed to 

 earlv risinsf, and as I learned the art, years ao;o, of 

 waking with the birds, I very often joined my host, 

 and had a chat with him before breakfast. The set- 

 tlement near which I stayed overnight is six miles 

 west of \yirioughby, which brought me w'ithin thir- 

 teen miles of Cleveland. It boasts of nothing more 

 than the necessary blacksmith shop and "store,'' and 

 " looks up to " its big neighbor with due reverence. 

 It lies in the fertile county of Lake, a northeastern 

 corner of Ohio, measuring some two hundred and 

 sixty square miles, of which a large portion is covered 

 with forest, and whose surface is generally hilly or 

 undulating. 



