per annum, these notes being always for three months.
As I say, he always sent a detailed statement of the month's profit and loss on the chickens--at least the month's loss on the chickens--and this detailed statement included the various items of expense--corn for the chickens, boots for himself, and so on; even car fares, and the weekly contribution of ten cents to help out the missionaries who were trying to damn the Chinese after a plan not satisfactory to those people.
I think the poultry experiment lasted about a year, possibly two years.
It had then cost me six thousand dollars.
Orion returned to the law business, and I suppose he remained in that harness off and on for the succeeding quarter of a century, but so far as my knowledge goes he was only a lawyer in name, and had no clients.
[Sidenote: (1890.)] My mother died, in her eighty-eighth year, in the summer of 1890.

She had saved some money, and she left it to me, because it had come from me.

I gave it to Orion and he said, with thanks, that I had supported him long enough and now he was going to relieve me of that burden, and would also hope to pay back some of that expense, and maybe the whole of it.

Accordingly, he proceeded to use up that money in building a considerable addition to the house, with the idea of taking boarders and getting rich.

We need not dwell upon this venture.