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speaking of our circumstances, express themselves that our mother was not able to keep us, that she had better bind us out at some good trade. It Filled me with ambition. I felt then that I was a man. I imagined that I could maintain myself and my brother. I made up my mind fully to make that effort; I went out the next day to look for work, which I soon found at 12'/j cents a day; I worked for two years, and never received more than one shilling per day.
My brother William was then going to school; my mother often told me that when my brother got old enough to take my place, that I should go to school. My little bark went on down the troubled stream of time smoothly, until the fall of 1829.
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