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account should I think of having more than a double layer, and 

 this to be single as space became vacant. I have seen larger and 

 grander fruit-rooms, but none, all points considered, better 

 adapted to fruit preservation than the room just described. 



My task is done. I am conscious of its many literary blunders, 

 but I know you will be charitable to these, when I assure you 

 that I have done my best, and that the whole is a faithful record 

 of work done, much of it with an immensity of pleasure, and 

 some in the face of great difficulties, lightened, however, by 

 the approval of the most appreciative employer that ever 

 breathed. 



