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For, though it includes what I proceed to add, all the merit of what I

proceed to add was Joe's It was not because I was faithful, but because

Joe was faithful, that I never ran away and went for a soldier or

a sailor It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of

industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry,

that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain It is not possible

to kno far the influence of any a

man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to kno it has

touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that

intermixed itself with my apprenticeship ca discontented me

What I wanted, who can say? How can I say, when I never knew? What

I dreaded was, that in sorimiest and