Paul Bunyon

"The parting with my wife and poor children has often been to me in this place as the pulling the flesh from my bones … mostly because what comes to my mind is the many hardships, miseries and wants that my poor family must experience, especially my poor blind child[Mary, who lay nearer to my heart than all I had besides; O, the thoughts of the hardships I thought my blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces."