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IS 4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
my entire body. Never has any man worked so hard for
me, when I afterwards hired help for good wages, as I
worked for my board here; and, b}r the way, this board
consisted chiefly of potatoes and corn meal cake. When the
spring work commenced I got five dollars a month, and had
to get up at five o’clock in the morning to do the chores, and
then work in the field from seven in the morning until dark.
In the beginning of June I got a letter from my parents,
stating that my father and brother were going to leave for New
York immediately, and they asked me to meet them there and
go Wrest with them. I had never complained in my letters to
my parents, but, on the other hand, I had not advised them
to come to America, either. They had been advised to do so
by some of my fellow-passengers on the " Ambrosius," who
went to Illinois, and were highly pleased with their
prospects. So I went to Boston again. My father’s voyage had
been dela\red, and I had to wait for him over a month, during
which time I got sick, and would have been in a sorry plight,
indeed, if it had not been for my friend Eustrom, who now
felt like a rich man, with his six dollars a week. A couple of
years later he became the partner of his employer.
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