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Ere long, loving country life as of old, we find him keeping a diary of all the little events of interest. As the months went round, the days, marked so often in past years with the gloomy trial, the terrible battle, are now given to the peaceful work of the farm and the garden. Jan. the 10th — the period of the stormy winter campaign in the Jerseys, he now quietly notes that the thorn is still in full berry. Jan. the 20th — the anniversary of the bitter hardships of Valley Forge, the suffer- M...OUNT VEENON. 65 ings of his army, the plottings of his secret ene- mies in the Conway cabal — we now follow him into his pine groves, where he is happily busy clearing openings among the midergrowth. In February, the moment when, during a previous year, the threatening military out- break was gathering to a head in the Highland camp, he is pleasantly engaged in transplant- ing ivy. In March, when the siege of Boston was drawing to a close, engrossing every fac- ulty, he is setting out evergreens — the spruce which throws its dark shadows over many a hillside in our country.
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