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taking to handicraft trades, and as shoemakers or
tailors earned those wages which they would have been
unable to earn by agriculture. To their honor it must
be told that they, amid severe want, labored earnestly
and endured a great deal with patient courage without
complaining, and that they successfully raised
themselves again by their labor. Neither were they
left without aid from the people of the country when
their condition became known.
Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli) made a
journey into the Western States in company with
Mrs. Clarke. Providence led her to the colonists on
Pine Lake. Captain Schneidau was then lying on his
sick-bed with an injury of the leg, which had kept
him there for some months. His handsome young wife
had been obliged, during that severe winter, to do the
most menial work; had seen her first-born little one
frozen to death in its bed in the room, into which
snow and rain found entrance. And they were in the
midst of the wilderness alone. They had no means of
obtaining help, which was extremely expensive in this
district; the maid-servant whom they had for a short
time had left them, and their neighbors were too far
off, or were themselves also suffering under similar
want. And now came the two ladies from Boston.
I must add that Margaret Fuller nobly exerted
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