JIMVILLE 



Not that Jimville is old, but it has an at- 

 mosphere favorable to the type of a half 

 century back, if not " forty-niners," of that 

 breed. It is said of Jimville that getting 

 away from it is such a piece of work that it 

 encourages permanence in the population ; 

 the fact is that most have been drawn there 

 by some real likeness or liking. Not how- 

 ever that I would deny the difficulty of get- 

 ting into or out of that cove of reminder, I 

 who have made the journey so many times 

 at great pains of a poor body. Any way 

 you go at it, Jimville is about three days 

 from anywhere in particular. North or 

 south, after the railroad there is a stage 

 journey of such interminable monotony as 

 induces forgetfulness of all previous states 

 of existence. 



The road to Jimville is the happy hunt- 

 ing ground of old stage-coaches bought 

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