You will find I have great skill and ingenuity in work, understanding
almost all kinds, and have, I am told, a good faculty to plan and
perform it, so I hope that I shall be of real use to you. You will not
think I am trying to flatter you or myself. Husband's idea is this: he
says when people trade they place their commodities in the best light
and speak of their desirable qualities, and this is so much like
trading ourselves off that we have a right to give some idea of
ourselves as an offset for what we expect to receive.
Mr. Brewster has sound, unbroken health, untiring strength and great
skill and ability to work. He often says he would not go where he could
not work--but he would like more time to read than he gets here. He has
great power and skill in doing heavy work and great patience and
industry in doing small and light work; talents not often combined in
one individual. He is just as handy and skilful in planting and weeding
and planning a flower garden, or in potting plants and tending them, as
in doing the heaviest work. He loves birds and flowers, but _bees_
are his _hobby_; he loves them as a mother loves her children. If
he comes among you, you must let him have a hive of bees or I fear he
would tire of Association.
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