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Perhaps its proportions indicate that the master or the mistress of the household reposes beneath, or perhaps they are suggestive of budding infancy or blooming youth. And would you learn the history, go away beyond the waters of Lake Erie, where the decimated and disconsolate family have sought solace among former friends in their early home. Malarial fever, want of markets, want of mills, want of society and sympathizing friends, want of everything has driven them from the spot they had selected for their future-home.
■' They quit tic scenes where strong temptations try, And, since His hard to combat, learn to fly.
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