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that father's health was miserable, and getting worse, I
decided to go right up there and spend a while with them
before deciding when I would settle for the practice of my
profession -- I had no money, but I was providentially
relieved of the necessity of borrowing any from bro. John.
There was a German peddler named Rosenblum, who was selling
goods about the county-; short, fat, sentimental -- and
musical, and thought himself handsome and interesting -- I
saw much of him afterwards at Ochesee -- He, hearing that I
was going to Columbus, handed me $12.00, with which to purchase
a guitar for him-; this paid my way ($7.00) to Columbus, on
the Steamer Wynnton, which I met at the River, and also paid
Capt. Morton the $5.00 I was due him for taking me up from
Apalachicola to Port Jackson, when I came back I bought the
guitar for him from my friend Whittlesey's music store, on my
credit, and paid it by & bye -- I found mother & father
living in a small, neat house in a different part of the town
from that to which I had been accustomed -- Mother was devoting
herself entirely to writing and nursing father, who was a most
miserable invalid -- When I entered his room, and saw him
lying in bed so changed -- so haggard & wasted, with long white
beard and unshorn white locks, I gave way completely-; the
shock upset me instantly and completely -- I threw myself on
his bed, and threw my arms around him, and sobbed as I never
did in my life before -- convulsivley and unrestrainedly -- I
was unprepared for such a change; he was a wretched hypo-
chondriac-- complaining of all sorts of pains in all parts of

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that father's health was miserable, and getting worse, I
decided to go right up there and spend a while with them
before deciding when I would settle for the practice of my
profession -- I had no money, but I was providentially
relieved of the necessity of borrowing any from bro. John.
There was a German peddler named Rosenblum, who was selling
goods about the county-; short, fat, sentimental -- and
musical, and thought himself handsome and interesting -- I
saw much of him afterwards at Ochesee -- He, hearing that I
was going to Columbus, handed me $12.00, with which to purchase
a guitar for him-; this paid my way ($7.00) to Columbus, on
the Steamer Wynnton, which I met at the River, and also paid
Capt. Morton the $5.00 I was due him for taking me up from
Apalachicola to Port Jackson, when I came back I bought the
guitar for him from my friend Whittlesey's music store, on my
credit, and paid it by & bye -- I found mother & father
living in a small, neat house in a different part of the town
from that to which I had been accustomed -- Mother was devoting
herself entirely to writing and nursing father, who was a most
miserable invalid -- When I entered his room, and saw him
lying in bed so changed -- so haggard & wasted, with long white
beard and unshorn white locks, I gave way completely-; the
shock upset me instantly and completely -- I threw myself on
his bed, and threw my arms around him, and sobbed as I never
did in my life before -- convulsivley and unrestrainedly -- I
was unprepared for such a change; he was a wretched hypo-
chondriac-- complaining of all sorts of pains in all parts of