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* and the advantages to be derived from his
improvement, in Rifles now in use under the appel-
lation of Hall's Life, he relinquished rather than{ enter}
with disputes (being in the patent office)--and was not well
treated in the business (I think by the War Department
as he was entitled to the honor and profit which Hall now enjoys.
* He was fond of Music generally, but some particular
Tunes he could not bear to hear, as they reminded him
too forcibly of" times gone bye" of auld lang syne--
he used to say that he "liked music that made his hair
stand of end" and would no doubt have been delighted with
the Orchestra of Milan "whose swells, (Carter says) some-
times come with such power, as almost to lift the audi-
tor involuntarily from his seat."