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The Story of My Childhood
These were years of change in the family. My brothers had become of age and were young men of strength, character and enterprise. They had "bought out" as the term went, the two large farms of my father, and commenced business in earnest for themselves. My father had purchased another farm of some three hundred acres, a few miles nearer the center of the town.
This was a place of note, having been one of the points used for security against the Indians by the old Huguenot Settlers of Oxford, and which has made the town historic. Their main defense was on "Fort Hill," several miles to the east. I was naturally greatly interested in the changes, and doubtless gave them all the time I could spare from my in-
