154 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



it the other way ; but, as the damages are charged, 

 the receipts must go against them. The saving on 

 the trip to Newport or Saratoga is fairly included, 

 as none of my readers would expect me to pass the 

 summer in town. 



This was certainly, taken all in all, a nattering ex 

 hibit, as, with the charming and original author of 

 &quot;Ten Acres Enough,&quot; when he forgot to put any 

 clothing on the backs of his wife and daughters, we 

 must not confine our view merely to the humdrum 

 matter of fact affairs of every-day life, but must 

 look at the whole subject from a higher stand-point. 

 Think of all the pleasures, intellectual and physical, 

 of the change from the dull, dreary city streets to the 

 lovely country roads from the nasty Croton, run 

 ning through its poisonous leaden pipes, and vulgar 

 ly penetrating into every room on every story, to the 

 pure, sparkling well-water, so fresh and delicious 

 (after the cat was removed), drawn from the deep 

 well by pump or bucket. Think of going from the 

 unhealthy atmosphere of overcrowded New York, 

 where sickness of all kinds is on the look-out for its 

 victims where pestilence stalks in the noonday to 

 the invigorating air of Flushing, where a slight at 

 tack of chills and fever, if it does happen, is rather 

 an agreeable variety. Think of escaping from the 



