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has he lived all his life?" " I'll bet he is an old heathen," or " I 

 wonder if they have not all got the scurvy." " What comfort 

 there." " What can they do to spend their leisure hours." " That's 

 the way these farmers live, they have no taste, and I wonder not 

 that the girls hate to marry farmers." 



How different the conversation of the passers by, where there are 

 nice yards and good gardens. " That man must be a thrifty fellow." 

 "Oh! look, see the flowers, and such a garden!" "I'll bet his wife 

 is a smart, tasty, neat little woman." " Suppose we stop and take 

 tea," and like remarks. We will form opinions of others from 

 their surroundings, and where's the use of our making all the world 

 believe we are rude and uncultivated, when perhaps we have the 

 best of hearts, and it is only thoughtlessness or an undue regard 

 for some other object, often not half as worthy. We like the 

 esteem of our fellows, and we have gone very low when we may 

 honestly say that we don't care what others think of us. 



There are many young people about to start in life in this new 

 country. I would say to them, get a home as soon as possible, and 

 make this home your home. In your middle life and old age, if 

 you are not appreciated among those with whom you have spent 

 your early years, you may never expect to be elsewhere. Select 

 your building spot, and if not able to build such a house as you 

 would like to live in all your days, build a small one adjoining these 

 grounds, and one of these days build the larger house on the inter- 

 est of the money that it would have cost when you first started. 

 Embellish the grounds; at least, set out the evergreens, for it takes 

 some years for them to make a nice show. There is nothing that 

 makes a place look so attractive in winter as these. Set out your 

 orchard, plant the shade trees by the roadside; anything that it 

 takes much time to mature don't put off longer than you can help; 

 then you may get some tangible benefit from it before you die. 

 Two acres of land devoted to orchard and garden, planted to vari- 

 eties suited to our climate, will supply any ordinary family, if well 

 cared for, with all the vegetables and most of the fruit it will require 

 in the year, causing but a trifling outlay to the nurseryman and 

 seedman; and the expense of cultivation, if well arranged in long 

 rows so as to admit of horse culture, will be but a trifle over a field 

 crop; and how pleasant to sit down to a table never complete with- 

 out some tender, juicy vegetables or luscious fruits thereon. Nothing 



