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cooking stove.  He tells you how he worked to show how he wanted the land for his children, he worked so hard building his house &c  Put wheat in the land but had no one to help him - so he killed a calf - & the Indian helped got 90 bushels - first year - next year 370 bushels [[ditto for next]] [[ditto for year]] 120 [[ditto for bushels]]
Then he saw it was good to work- don't think he would stop working.  When he is working on his land he is always thinking of his children & hopes to have more for them- He just wishes he could work at this land without feeling a bit worried- When he hears any thing about people wanting to get the land it just frightens him & he wishes it could be so that the land could always be his.  He does not