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that it was for something she desired to have made ; so 

 after I had reached the Institution and finished my business 

 there, I sat opposite my twenty-three hours' picture and 

 made the diminutive sketch in less than twenty-three 

 minutes. The evening was spent at Woodcroft, and Mr. 

 Rathbone sent his servant to drive me in the gig to Green 

 Bank, the night being cold and damp. The man was quite 

 surprised I did not make use of a great coat which had 

 been placed at my disposal. How little he knew how 

 often I had lain down to rest, wet, hungry, harassed and 

 full of sorrow, with millions of mosquitoes buzzing round 

 me as I lay awake listening to the Chuckmill's Widow, the 

 Horned Owl, and the hoarse Bull-frog, impatiently awaiting 

 the return of day to enable me to hunt the forests and 

 feast my eyes on their beautiful inhabitants. I thought of 

 all this and thfen moved the scene to the hunter's cabin. 

 Again wet, harassed, and hungry, I felt the sudden warmth 

 of the " Welcome, stranger ! " saw the busy wife unhook 

 dry clothes from the side of the log hut, untie my moc- 

 casins, and take my deerskin coat; I saw the athletic 

 husband wipe my gun, clean the locks, hang all over the 

 bright fire ; the eldest boy pile on more wood, whilst my 

 ears were greeted with the sound of the handmill crushing 

 the coflfee, or the rye, for my evening drink ; I saw the lit- 

 tle ones, roused by the stranger's arrival, peeping from 

 under the Buffalo robe, and then turn over on the Black Bear 

 skin '.o resume their slumbers. I saw all this, and then 

 arrived at Green Bank to meet the same hearty welcome. 

 The squatter is rough, true, and hospitable ; my friends 

 here polished, true, and generous. Both give what they 

 have, freely, and he who during the tough storms of life 

 can be in such spots may well say he has known 

 happiness. 



Green Bank, October 3. To-day I have visited the jail 

 at Liverpool. The situation is fine, it is near the mouth of 

 the estuary that is called the river Mersey, and from its 



