atskill. After one day in jail there, I was brought before a
justice and examined on the charge of uttering a forged note. There was
a most exciting trial of four days duration. I had two good lawyers who
did their best to show that I did not know the note to be forged when
I sold it, but the justice seemed determined to bind me over for
trial, and he did so, putting me under five hundred dollars' bonds. My
half-sister at Sidney was sent for, came to Catskill, and became bail
for me. I was released, and my lawyers advised me to leave, which I did
at once, and went to Pittsfield, and from there to Worthington,
Mass., where I had another half-sister, who was married to Mr. Josiah
Bartlett, and was well off.

Here I settled down, for all that I knew to the contrary, for life. For
some years past, I had devoted my leisure hours from the forge to
the honest endeavor to make up for the deficiencies in my youthful
education, and had acquired, among other things, a good knowledge
of medicine. I did not however, believe in any of the "schools"
particularly those schools that make use of mineral medicines in
their practice. I favored purely vegetable remedies, and had been very
successful in administering them. So I began life anew, in Worthington,
as a Doctor, and aided by my half-sister and her friends, I soon
secured a remunerative practice.

I was beginning to be truly happy. I supposed that the final separation,
mutually agreed upon between my wife and myself, was as effectual as all
the courts in the country could make it, and I looked upon myself as
a free man. Accordingly, after I had been in Worthington some months I
began to pay attentions to the daughter of a flourishing farmer. She was
a fine girl; she received my addresses favorably, and we were finally
privately married. This was the beginning of my life-long troubles. In
a few weeks her father found out that I had been previously married, and
was not, so far as he knew, either a divorced man or a widower. And
so it happened, that one day when I was at his house, and with his
daughter, he suddenly came home with a posse of people and a warrant for
my arrest. I was taken before a justice, and while we were waiting for
proceedings to begin, or, possibly for the justice to arrive, I took the
excited father aside and said:

"You know I have a fine horse and buggy at the door. Get in with me, and
ride down home. I will see your daughter and make everything right with