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It was like a sacred bureau drawer, where precious bits of lace and bundles of old letters sealed with wafers, together with a silk shawl and great-grandfathers snuff box and great-grandmothers French painted Fan, were preserved. Also in their treasure house of the old farm parlor under a glass case was a little stationary steam engine built by Uncle de Los and propelled by two little camphine lamps which burned under the boiler -This Uncle died very early as a young man and was buried in a little family plot which was created back of the homestead up in the corner of the pasture near an enormous pine tree which stood head and shoulders above the adjoining wood. My Uncle Fred gained distinction in our Civil War, coming home like many a veteran of that struggle with honor and experience but with a shattered constitu

Transcription Notes:
The number 14 is shown in the upper right hand corner of the page. "sealed with wafer" is about a wax wafer used to seal a letter corrected "sick shawl" to "silk shawl" campphine lamp is correct.