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in the woods and saw that Mr Golding and a colored man were chopping down the big chestnut tree by the path through the woods.  When he came home he told us that we could go and see them cut ut down.  Wen we got there they had all most cut it through ^[[and]] in about twenty minutes it fell and split into in the[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]] middle wher two trunks joined.
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The skeleton of "The Greening by thy Garden Gate" was sketched [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] for a previous number of the Johnson Monthly, when the leaves were opening, and was not completed on account of illness.  It would be diffi^[[cu]]lt to finish it at this season and it was therefor decided sent it out as it is.  
G. M. J.