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Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals

CHAPTER I
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Cts.
"Postage $2.05 Oil .50 Taxes, fines, etc.

3.00 Oysters .50 Washbowl .37-1/2 Skillet .33 Axe $1.33 Catalogues .12 1.45 Powder and shot 1.12-1/2 Cakes, etc.etc.etc.

1.75 Wine, Thanks.

day .20 Toll on bridge .15 Grinding axe .08 Museum .25 Poor man .14 Carriage for trunk 1.00 Pitcher .41 14.75-1/2 Sharpening skates .37-1/2 Paid for Circ.

Library .25 cutting wood .25 Post papers .57 Lent never to be returned .25 $14.75-1/2 15.00-1/2 "In my expenses I do not include my wood, tuition bills, board or washing bills." How characteristic of all boys of all times the "etc., etc., etc.," tacked on to the "cakes" item, and how many boys of the present day would bewail the extravagance of fifteen dollars spent in one term on extras?
In a postscript in this same letter he says: "The students are very fond of raising balloons at present.


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