12 TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



clasp and entwine tightly a nuillituile of persons, ob- 

 jects, causes, plans. It is no light work to tear them 

 up on sudden notice and transplant them to a rural 

 home. But we have paid this penalty to over-work, 

 and now for a year shall ivy the virtues of" vegetat- 

 ing." To work in the field or sleep in the house ; to sit 

 or walk or ride or recline ; to keep the mind pleasantly 

 occupied and the body in the open air ; to drift on easily 

 with time and chance, and to — wait ! Such is the life 

 Avhich the Doctor bids me live. Well, a worse prescrip- 

 tion perhaps might have been prepared. I shall take 

 my medicine honestly, for, in sooth, one cannot — as 

 with other doctors' nostrums that I wot of — throw this 

 remedy out of the window. 



