296 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



work, and no telling the day when he may do that. 

 And I thought perhaps yer honor will give me the 

 loan of some shingles, and keep the house yerself 

 until I could work it out. The windies ain t much 

 matter, and boards will do very well, but sure a house 

 is good for nothing intirely unless it has a roof 

 on it.&quot; 



I coincided fully in Patrick s views ; there was a 

 bond of brotherhood in suffering between us ; and al 

 though I did not keep his house for him, he had his 

 shingles. And so he was fairly housed, and my ex 

 tra story being completed, and the garden having at 

 last consented to grow, and the trees to furnish foli 

 age and give yearly promise of fruit, and my vast 

 experience having been carefully stored away for the 

 use of others, and myself finally and peremptorily 

 settled in the country, I think it is time that I closed 

 this veracious and trustworthy account of &quot;Five 

 Acres more than Enough.&quot; 



THE END. 



