Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young (1887)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York : John D. Williams · leaf 100
CTION. 87 from the gay thoughtlessness of a boy tosomewhat of the sobriety of manhood. I did not, myself, remark the change inmy manners or my character; but othersdid. My uncle, particularly, noticed it andbecame uneasy, or rather vexed about it:he was a jolly old man, and wished every-body else… … WIT BOUGHT. CHAPTER VIII. EMIGRATION TO UTICA AN EXPEDITION. WHEN I was about eighteen years of age,I left Salem for the first time since myarrival in the village. At that period a num-ber of people were removing from the placewhere I lived, to seek a settlement at Utica.That place is now a large…
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