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I believe that on these conditions the Puritan ministers well earned their hundred and sixty pounds a year, with a discount of forty pounds, if paid in wampum-beads, beaver-skins, and musket-balls. What they took in musket-balls they paid back in the heavier ammunition of moral truth.
The logs of which the house was built, showed here and there through the mud plaster, although before both plaster and logs were hung the skins of many curious animals, skins presented to the widow by many a trader of her acquaintance, just as her sailor guests brought her another description of gift shells, strings of wampum-beads, sea-birds' eggs, and presents from the old country.
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