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The Farmhouse was under the management of an Irishman and his wife. He with a generous heart that always kept him poor, for he often assisted lodgers towards paying for their beds, who, I am sorry to say, were sometimes ungrateful in return. She, more circumspect, but kind hearted and motherly where she thought the case to be a deserving one.
With regards to literary ambition I always kept my own counsel, confiding in one man only -- "Cronje"; a man to be relied on, whose sympathetic ears were always open to receive either good or bad news.