Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-25
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 That quaino ,i.t-.... ,A i'iiling5, penncd the fui4.,-.. .'.- ...." .2 Carleton ' book store ii ,....s --.- .-'. Fl" ? $. ore of years aga, say, s.. -...- .,.-, No.l'. and forwarlied t9 ... .,.--...., '-t%H>,- Mr. i}ou-I.3. ot For. ...i-.
 DEAN y,.->i,.....: T a s+ ...' " {. '- kalls to lcl.tur t,.t A.s.- y,. :. - t-. ' t+ - .a you. Sorry that i.,-lv -.s -.... ..| of my face iO :-.-. f-.t; '" Cusscl hui.lt},E l,.t ] s..- . -.-'1 sent to Eu+ri,l.G -,,g t-.t ol .- '. Those pulii he" :.:t s-...' -.-- t istS-thyy ' >t,:.l :, !! .,ii... :.. e.-.t '' have had Gt ic,t.., ,,,3f .---1. ..- 2. - CTS but nCVt hal $ q. 2-. t-1- A. t,.-.t --. has been s,ll,I...n-d i:r !. .-..-l .'- p.+'.. aiu't any thing iii it that -r. I;.' 0-.G F.. J faint away, &ud believe there is a,-:lc '-.,'~ truth i'll it.
 As regards the cat,.l1,s: -1ys: :2 r.. f.".,- raphy thus far, c;.:! o.,il @4;t,~ t"t N-aS :: in Massachusetts. between iso l,.-'...:-:--, n the year lS.H) At IL" age rt !5 ;ho i.i.5i 'i5' ness l attacked W.:S IL" Wool N..>'ri'.~,.-- l driving sheep. l had Icy>r h.. aW;.y before. and every body SCrElC,! to >.D.- 1l."rr than l did I saved myself. bat los. tan i-.'cl tt ,-.'s l pretty thoroughly. At l6 1 brought up on the west bank of the Mississippi even ia them | days quite D stream The p1St thirty years l have been divided multiplied @@l S;i,':";.rt}d 1 in and among the various schemes of a N2.rant | temperament Supplantcd in strons', naiHt;I- | constitution, such aS Luebanl"v in the w.iHv? 1 ness where there was more Wild bees to hunt 1 than oats to cut: merchandising at the frr',S 1 of q mud turnpike with q stock of brucaH l boots. Lowell calico and whisky by tAr quart 1 running a high pressure steam boat c. the l Ohio rivcr-a lively life. where man cun sec | human natur with the bark on, and learn how to swear with great precision. Also ap"culatcd
 in West India stores and potash, the two first
 crops of & new country: an auctioaccr, aud f2y
 eight years d land hunter on Indian trails, "no | made tough by riding d hogsilin saddle :nd ! eating acorn fed pork and cOrTl-ttOd|CrS.
 l My life has been q success thus flr, Tor i 1 am still alive, but pccuniarilN, who ever made 1 money by playing the eccentric Wandcrcr from | one rude vocation to another but little better
 than the common trappcr and honey and pen
 sion hunter? have lad much comfort o"t ot
 all this. and would not take the h2,t farm i2
 the State of New York for the Si -rhtS l have
 seen. My literary raid has been short, but
 sweet. I have had much fun out of ii a
 any man who ever lived, and when reflect that
 it is but little more than five years since tir~
 put comic on paper, can certainly feel that il | have not made much coin, have the QulHi l satisfaction of knowing that I have nCEcr wit 1 ten line in malice against the truth CT NirtJ,
 of the world. l might have gained more W IS | dom by sleeping ill a clOistcr, but would have | missed the larIS' wild song in the morning "i!, ! the sober hoot of tho midnight owl in the vii | dcrncSS. was never sick all day in my ntC i never saw q man in q tight spot but what ".
 wiiin., to loosen the screws; have lived 1:.'',.
 the nigh and tine low ;iil& n,-Z er put n my ' ct Il knife O: a pistol. G=ci.-" this if if lo"E
 like cgoti9m. only mt>u to bras ou the joy ,lu
 world has furnished me. Your; trnd1Tly. , ''1;!HitN ". SHAW. 'AoSh 3i".u.~. - Kew York. January .1 t,6i.''