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Diary, beginning October 27th, 1886
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October 27 Get up early in the morning from my bed in my home at
Sandy Spring Maryland, get my breakfast, get some
little necessaries from the store for myself on my journey,
The stage comes, rumbling along the pike from Brookville,
Mr Tom Ware is driving it. I kiss all my brothers
and sisters & father & say good-by to all the men
& boys on the store-porch among them are Frank Leizear,
Mr Tom Marlow, Charlie Richardson, Mike Upton
& Will Oldfield. My mother and myself get in
stage & we ride off down the little street past the
toll-gate where Mr Perry Leizear stands on the porch
& says good-by, a little way on we pass some more
persons who say the usual good-byes & then away we
go over the hill that hides the dear old villiage of
Sandy Spring from sight - which & think & will not
have the pleasure of seeing again for years may
be never. When the stage gets to Ashton several more
of my acquaintances come out & say farewells
to me, Charley Haslup & Louis Stabler are the
two who I remember & also Mrs Ent & [Mr Buliver?],
the German tinner. When we get to Ednor Post Office
there is no one but Mr Coar the toll-gate keeper to
whom I say my adieu. My mother & I reach Laurel
after a cool though not unpleasant ride of
two hours, here I see Frank Fairall as he drives by