Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
la.t page of OIU" ha1'in& tek:en the ne. hOU88 built b)'
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N)'e.
The
end of
thi. hoWie .a. on the ·Creek," which ren
up
toward. the city from the ri1'er ,
and every night it was crowded with
.
~ane
Which c·me there for shelter.
In one
ot
theae
a9mp~t
was a child who cried all night in such a .., a.
to render sleep imponible. I atood
it
Wltil patience ceated to be a 1'ir_
tue, and then aaked the cOlllpradore it
he
could not do aOlllething to have
the child removed, The compradore lald
he
IUd not think it could be
done. 'No got realon,'
he
Baid . "The child hall all much right to cI7 .. you
have not to IIII.Dt him to cry.- 1 could not
g~nltQ"
thi e, but I aeked
hiDI
more in Jou tban earnest , if he could not get rid of
the
child
by
OOYill&
it quietly killed.
He
thought
for
a 1lI00000nt and then laid, -Can, - IUppoe.
he belong Cow Chilo- can..- I ahould here remark in parentheeie that the
Chine.e care comparatiyely little
for
their women ; But , the compradore
went on to eq, "more batter you no
do -
euppote 10u
NNe
killum. he , you
onat pa..v
he
t.o dollar - 10 - then tOl!lOrrow got ten piecy chilo come
mak.1 CI7.'
I cannot, of Courle, voueh for the inclination or the abllitJ-
of
the compradoret o really han had the child ld.lled, but I tell the 8to17
exactly a.
it
happened. .Another Ito17 - I wae driving one morning outdda
tha campo at L!acao .hen a .Wloll child euddenly ru.hed before the ponln,
end before the;r could be checked, it wal knooked down end I dl.tinctly
felt both 1I'hee1l pan direotly 01' 81' itt bod1. I cU'OY8, without loeing
an Inlltant, into town and carried
Dr.
Watton out to tee the child. When
.
e got there, irnegine my .urprlle when, in.taad of finding it
dead ,
it
ru.hed out, appe.rantly tr,ying to be
:
run
over againl I gave the IIIOther e
dollar, .hich eurprlled her
1
IIlInen"l¥,
and
.
he
would ha1'e been willing
to have the whole family run over daily fer the tame price, or
half
of
it.
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t he
Se:lruel
Appleton, (I think) and entered the house all bookkeeper .
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