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4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
and therefore returned to my castle in the meadow, (the
hay-barn). There I remained about a week living on berries
which I found in the neighboring woods and a slice of bread
and butter, which Eustrom brought me in thecvening, when,
with blistered hands and sore back, lie called to comfort me
and help build better air castles for the future.
A council was finally held among us four, and it was
decided to send me back to Buffalo with a farmer who was
going there the following morning. One of the men Mr.
Abraham Sandberg 011 parting gave me a silver dollar, with
the injunction to give it to someone who might need it worse
than I, whenever I could do so. I have never met Abraham
again; but I have regarded it as a sacred duty to comply
with his request, and, in case these lines should come befor,
his eyes I wish to let him know that my debt has been
honestly paid.
O11 reaching the old boarding house in Buffalo the landlord
promised that he would send me to a hospital where I could
receive proper treatment and care. I made up a little bundle
of necessary underwear, and in an hour a driver appeared
at the door; I was lifted into the cart and off we went
through the muddy streets to the outskirts of the city, where
I was duly delivered at a large building which I supposed to
be the hospital. It was near evening, and I was brought
into a large dining-room, with a hundred others or more,
served with supper, corn mush and molasses water, after
which I was shown to a bed in a large room among many
others. I suffered with fever, and for the first time in mv life
with loneliness. Exhausted nature finally took out its due,
and I slept soundly until awakened in the morning by a loud
sound of a gong. As soon as dressed I walked out in the
yard, or lawn, back of the building. On one side was a high
plank fence, behind which ! heard some strange sounds. I
found a knot-hole, and, peeping through this, I observed
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