It would take just about as much evidence to prove that young crows would be black when their feathers are grown, as it would to satisfy the community that these statements are true, especially where he is known.

For knavery, untruthfulness, and wickedness, I have never seen anything, in all my business experience of forty years, that will compare with this.

He would not have taken such a course with me once, but he took advantage of my age and misfortunes to commit these frauds, thinking that I could not defend myself, and that he could defraud and crush me.
I had paid every dollar of my money into this business which I had at that time, and had nothing to live on through the winter.

But John Woodruff in his kindness, raised money enough for me to live on through the winter, and the following spring I moved to New Haven..