THE AUSTIN PAPE.RS. 175 I will do the best I can for you- Now for other matters- As to an entry you made out at the Cave Fielding B-. -d [sic] having the oldest patent will certainly non-suit you- And _now to lump your other sweethearts for .I cannot notice them all singly, all of them are surrounded by beaux. I have heard a report that I am making at two Ol' three of them and no doubt envy or disappointed has signified as much to you by letter before.this by [but] believe me to be earnest when I say I will not intrude on the premises of any friends if I lmow the ground they occupy- S--that sweet provoking girl the other evening when we were in chit-chat no one else near thus a.cldress'd me-" No youngman from Orleans, :Mississippi or Louisianna. Terretol)' ever lived here with- out engaging himself to be married to some young lady and amongst a very great number not one ever returned to discharge his engage- ment. and I be bound (Ljsten well Stephen for indeed-she said it) that I never will give any of ~hem the_opportunity of thus deceiv- ing me! !" '' Oh, gods/' As from the agitated ether·the swift hurld Thunderbolt.strikes the astounded earth, fell those dire words on my ear- At length my Irish Blood mounted high in my veins, and as it passed through my heart washed away every particle of affec- tion for the ungrateful girl that had g·athered round it.-but quick was her place [possessed by] one who long my bosom has cherished but [whose] name my tonge would never reveal. She is a beauty Love-.and divinity-but now it is time to_quit the affairs of the heart for those of the head- ·· . I am engaged in studying Rhetoric, Logic Algebra ·and the reading of history. I am more studious than_ever and enjoying every ad- vantage my advancement in science is rapid. . I will [not] gradu- nte, but will leave Lexington if I am well and nothing unforeseen intervenes about the 12th of October for the Mississippi Territory. At that season it would be impracticable to go down the Ohio so I will have to go all or pa1+ of my way by land. If I were sure of getting a passage from St Louis or Kaskaska I would go through Vincennes etc to one of these places and ·so on as I am n.xious to see the country. Please write to me and let me know [if] a passage at the time I want one can be had Enquire of the officers of Bell canton and therabouts for the soldiers frequenly pass down a.bout that time . . If no passage can be had or the road from St. Geneveive to the Chickesaw Bluffs is unpracticabl-e at that season I will go via Knox- Yille Savannah and Mobile for the old beaten track I have seen often enough- With every sentiment of respect and esteem Your sincere Friend- Is.u.c LEw1s BAKER-
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