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Father Winter
On the 3d of November we see them leaving Buffalo, —destined in a few months to be destroyed by a vandal foe, —Mr. Thayer on one horse, Elly, the _ten-year-old son, with eight-year-old Eunice on another, and Mrs.
Winter with six-year-old Azubah on Mrs. Winter's favorite mare. Neither carried a Saratoga trunk, but Mr. Thayer had quite a pack of goods purchased at Buffalo. It was a melancholy procession, and their hearts might well be filled with foreboding of serious 'hardships, if not actual danger. There was a turnpike for some distance out from the village, and Mr. Winter walked with them a mile to the toll-gate, paid their toll, and bade them adieu.
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