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RURAL LIFE AND RURAL PROBLEMS
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the parting cheers and patriotic songs of the friends and relatives who have come to see her off. Next morning the Canada arrives soon after nine o'clock, and we have the satisfaction to find our son apparently quite recovered from a very dangerous wound, and though a piece of his skull was absolutely blown off by a fragment of shell, the hole in his forehead is quite healed up.
