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A Profitable Life eludes me. Risen again to the world, I thought to settle, taxidermist at the Museum inPhiladelphia, but have stuffed myself most industriously out of business, even did fishes after all the Fowl. The man who hired me has left and no one else knows how to sign my name to a note? Lucy no matter. We have been unmoneyed before. My purpose, that had staggered, lifts. It makes me simple, a curve my hand draws without government by a round thought. Enjoying my life I will enlarge it & for this must peregrinate, reckless in others' eyes but regular to my Plan & you will be my astronomer, you will see its shape, my hope realized, ah! thrush by thrush. 22 ...

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