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i CHILD OF NATURE, 
quietly as he lived, John Foster kept 
the record of his soul. And when 
he died it lay in his desk with the 
much-worn books in which for 
years he had kept his accounts with 
the seedsman and storekeeper. And 
there, side by side, through the 
months when the old house was 
tenantless lay these two records of 
a man's history as the owner of a 
few acres and the possessor also of 
that sublime landscape which is the 
foreground of man's immortality. 
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