78 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



lead the simple life, then the country is no whit 

 better for you than the city. It will give you no 

 health perforce, and in the end you will go back to 

 the city dissatisfied. Good air and the perfume of 

 clover and corn blossoms cannot negative the virus 

 of gin and tobacco. Nature does well to give over 

 the lazy and the drunken to weeds and waste. Hu- 

 man waste is the meanest thistle in the crowd. 



