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gentlemen outside on benches and in carriages, while the preacher 
stands in the doorway. 
“ Old Gray 55 was an attentive listener to-night. Just after the 
beginning of the service he came around the north side of the 
house, and took his station close by the speakers, where he re¬ 
mained until the last prayer was said, when he as quietly walked 
away. 
10 th. — Yesterday the doctor, Mr. L., and G., went down 
to Kansas, stopping at Shawnee Mission and Westport. A gentle¬ 
man at the former place, a pro-slavery resident of Lawrence, said 
to G., “ Is the doctor going to Westport ? ” 
Upon his replying in the affirmative, the gentleman said, “ They 
are going to hang him there.” 
With characteristic naivete G. replied, “ Is that all ? ” and his 
Informant, turning on his heel, walked away. 
The doctor, after looking in upon the grave legislators who hold 
their sessions at the Shawnee Mission School, but who ride over 
and back in omnibuses from their homes in Westport, to his sat¬ 
isfaction, pursued his way to Kansas city. There, friends informed 
him that Dr. Wood had been there attempting to arouse the bit¬ 
terness of the pro-slavery men against him ; that they might offer 
him some violence. Having completed his business at that place, 
he came again by Westport on the following day, stopping, as be¬ 
fore, at the mission. He saw Hr. Wood there, who was complain¬ 
ing that the stage for Lawrence had gone, and he had no mode of 
conveyance home. The doctor said to him, “ Here is a seat in my 
carriage, if you like ; ” at the same time jocosely adding, “ but we 
may get to fighting.” 
To which the dignified Hr. Wood offered no reply, though his 
hand seemed to have- a strange affinity to something in his coat 
pocket. The docter came on to Lawrence without fear or molesta¬ 
tion, and wholly alone. 
19 th. — We rode into the country some miles, to dine. We 
had vegetables, peas, etc., with pumpkin pies for the second course. 
They were veritable pumpkins,—such as make a New Englander 
think of home and Thanksgiving holidays,— ripened this year. On 
our way home we called at another friend’s, and, to shorten distan- 
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