Three First days, in one. — Time, that cures many a wound, had not as yet,
its desired effect on me. ^Mournful cogitations attending a melancholy con-
h trast-^Still, some grounds of consolation and incentives to gratitude.— Sundry

afiecting considerations.— > A gain, a stricken deer.— An aged tree nearly torn
up by the root.— A blasted and withered shrub of long standing— at last
falls before the blast— A new claim to an old title.— Consolatory considera-
tions, notwithstanding all these.— Melancholy Sunday, which ushered in an
irksome and mournfully eventful week.— Meeting takes place.— Plain speaking
statements,— Accompanying address— -Short-comings, how again to be ae«
counted for.— All^our hard earned earnings again gone.^This« still not the
greatest matter of regret.— Immediate acquiescence in the measure proposed,
by the parties present -.Deeds of accession soon come in from absentees.-*
A few anxious days of suspense.*-Hear at last from a kind friend.— A pre-
cious gem worth preserving.— Timeous arrival to put me in spirits, and
enable me to rise, as it were, to newness of life, on another Anniversary of
my Birth..^ Wonderful changes produced in a very short time.— How I was
affected by the contents of my kind friend's friendly letter ^-Idea suggest?d
by that letter.— Resolution in consequence— A most appropriate motto, at
the commencement of my work. — ** Many ups and dowxs," indeed, in
my eventful pilgrimage.
