FEINBERG/WHITMAN   NOTES and NOTEBOOKS  NOTES -- Brooklyniana  Simplicity of Charges
Box 38  Folder 47  UNDATED

Simplicity of Charges. -  A steamboat,
went up from New York, was badly stove
by ice in Northport Harbor. -  The carpenters
worked all night to mend her, and did
the job finely. -  The charge was three dollars.
When I crossed from Babylon to Huntington
with a companion, and horse and wagon,
we stopped and got a good dinner of
Ham eggs mince=pie bread fresh
butter etc. and oats [???] for the horse
the charge was twelve cents.

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Brooklyniana: Simplicity of Charges: prose. A.MS. (1p. 10 1/2
x 20 cm.)

Written in pencil on a lined sheet torn from a larger page, 77
words:

Simplicity of Chargers.--A steamboat, went of from New York,
was badly stove by ice in Northport Harbor.--The carpenters worked
all night to mend her, and did the job finely.--The charge was
three dollars. When I crossed from Babylon to Huntingto with a
companion, and horse and wagon, we stopped and got a good dinner
of Ham, eggs, mince-pie, bread, fresh butter, etc. and oats, hay for
the horse the charge was twelve cents

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