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an encouragement to vice ; but for my part I have no 

 such scruples. It always gives me pleasure to find 

 myself thrown by chance among these rough and 

 wild, but upright and energetic sons of the wilder- 

 ness these pioneers of the west, who pass their 

 lives in converting tangled thickets and endless 

 forests into, fields and pastures, for the benefit of 

 generations yet unborn. Truly, dear Louise, a few 

 dollars spent amongst these worthy fellows are not 

 thrown away, if they serve to form one, the smallest, 

 link of the chain of goodwill and good-fellowship 

 that does and ought to bind us to our fellow-citizens. 



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