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friendless, his enemies drove him
there, and was bleeding there all alone.
  "When a bear is wounded, and
it falls to the ground, ready to die, if she
bear happens to be there, she walks up
to the dying bear, and striks
him with her paws from front
and from the back, she soon revives the
life in the dying bear, and then she
carries him to the nearest thicket, and
she will stand there and die in defending
the wounded.
     Miss Fletcher is that noble
she bear and by her actions etc.
  She is the good "Samartain" spoken
off in the Bible.
    I do not think necessary
for me to say, that I intend to
do right and live right, about smoking
I will not smoke in the office or 
in presence of ladies and gentlemen,
but may smoke all alone and away
from anybody.  All other things 
that I have done, I will quit them 
now and all the time, and I must & 
I will.
    You will burn this note.
    Yours most truly
       J. R.