Of course I have an “axe to grind” and whether you are turning the grindstone, or I, you shall judge. Eleanor told me in one of her letters that <unk> had gotten so she balked pretty often and that you intended to turn her in the pasture…. (referring to E’s horse)(excerpt from letter from Avery to his future father-in-law, Mr. Woodworth)
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