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incleood fire that
we found awaiting us, built up of great, rough logs, and knotty liments of an oak-tree, such as farmers are wont to
keep for their own hearths, since these crooked and unhs
could never be measured into ri their kettle over precisely
such a fire as this, only, no doubt, a bigger one; and, contrasting it
with rate, I felt so much the more that we had transported
ourselves a world-wide distance from the system of society that
shackled us at breakfast-time
Good, comfortable Mrs Foster (the wife of stout Silas Foster, as
to e the farm at a fair stipend, and be our tutor in the art of
husbandry) bade us a hearty welcoenerous
breadth--appeared two young wo
rather aithal, as not well knoas to be their
position in our new arrangement of the world We shook hands
affectionately all round, and congratulated ourselves that the blessed
state of brotherhood and sisterhood, at which we ais were hardly concluded when the
door opened, and Zenobia--whom I had never before seen, important as
was her place in our enterprise--Zenobia entered the parlor