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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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would not be surprised if
the papers themselves publish-
ed it from mere force of
habit. x
But not merely
as your ancestors are you
indebted to them. They have
left you a more solid le-
gacy in the beautiful land
you now occupy. They were
the pioneers who rescued
this land, from the wilder-
ness. But for their enterprise
and sacrifice of present to
future ease, you might have
been operatives in some
English manufacturing town
engaged in a losing con-
test with your employers,
striving to keep your already
small wages from being re-
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duced five per cent. But
now you are thriving occu-
pants of a country, rendered
fertile and habitable by
their exertions. You must
remember that this was
a timber as well as a
stony country, and the
amount of work necessary to
make a track of land look
something like a farm as
you understand the term
was simply appalling. You
look with pride upon your
smooth fields from which
the stumps have all rotted
away and from which the
stones have all been gathered
into miles of fence. But how
different a landscape pre-
sented itself to the eyes of those