His wife was his best helper. She bound all his
upper leathers, and also the upper leathers of several of




nawag«3 paid to hex vend:
I paid to Edward. Te!i7 often,
BcnaiDga on clothes or bdnging
, dm TOiId baj for her husband
, vood for his Inid-csses, or
powdg aad Am ftv his goo. Xooe of his adviaiig
frie»d» cnr be^ed him in this way.
.Aadpst Edwwd did extend his investigstums iu-
ths n^o BiafUin^ ead erea ioto Abeideenabin.
Wk& tkit Tiev k obtained ft ootiSeate, dnwn up by
^e deifc of dM Puec^ud ngned bj sixteen Jnsticei
at Ac Itece. oHhliag him to go over die country with
Us em, in aaaneh of Inids and other things. He si-
e with him ; and vben he
t ft to A ^oAttfer, be was allowed to go
TW ostificate was as foUowav-




Will



~Tk«* Ml w «ert^ Att lb bnrer, Tbomu Edwud,

I, imiBd-ilunildeKd, tnd
I lo hit otba



ffiMaqe, i Mli B Ji i j t&oM oX^ettM which idiM
(IM^ Owi hp (Ecg>), Entooxuilagr (hueetr^,
(WwMs, «lc\ tatd Ooaduilagy (SheUs);—
' A* 9«fMc «f l aa uiinfc Oknidwloginl SpMimeu,
Aw tk» aMM^^ oTnu^ « Om, but in doing M,
"Mii ri iea ul , b^n mvct bwU of > single cue d ^
^*^S ^*a^f^ ^UKi him, uid, aa far u we buiTH^K
i ia tka habit «( UDt^ Gou of an/ sort, n
^"'?"<.' *f i^ 4BKi^«i3w, vbidi, were he in Cl




LOVE OF BIRD-NESTING.
I



"« conid not, we think, have escaped public notice ao long, —
having resided in tfaii town for a period of mteen years, dni-
^x^S which time he hru borne an unimpeachable character.
