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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