" The wife of a Gorman peasant
was ill. A phyt-ioian wim called
in. "Will yon pav me" asked tin-
'kill hcr.or cure her.and these are
your's '
The patient died and the phys
irinn dntnunded his iav. P'irdoii
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inv wife ? No. Oid you cure her?
No. Very well since you neither
killed hrr, nor cured her you did
not stand by our agreement and I
owe you nothing.
OF THE
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A poet has said that, "flesh is formed of fiery dust,"
lie was well skilled in the knowledge of human nature I
and may he cited as an authority. Had he seen the eom-
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pany in me 010 nun on risuiug v. icck, iiu womiu inueeu
have said that the human shapes before him were
compounded of "fierv dust." In the days of which wc'C4
i ! write more active life could be seen on the waters of
CO
t! c Fishing Creek ; considerable rafting was done.
Boat building va carried on by a class of men called
Yankee's, who built canal boats on Fishing Creek and
floated them down to the Fusquehannu river, thence to
other points and sold them and returned and built more.
In our la-t chapter we left our German friend Hans
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