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2 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.