THE CALL OF THE LAND 



their city homes, expecting to realize at 

 last their long dreams of delight, only to 

 find that they have made the change too late. 

 The complete break-up of habit after years 

 spent in one single line or mode of life can 

 hardly fail to be tragic. 



Perhaps there is not much discontent the 

 first year. It partakes of the virtues of a 

 short vacation. Your interests are taken up 

 with the building and furnishing of a new 

 home and in sharing with the children the 

 joy which they find in their altered life. But, 

 like a widower, the new habitant of the city 

 finds it hard to get through his second sum- 

 mer. The signs of planting time and of cul- 

 tivating time awaken the slumbering pro- 

 pensities of a life and call for satisfaction 

 with a relentlessness that is death to content- 

 ment. The "town farmer" soon finds his 

 one comfort in seeking out others of the 

 same dolorous class with whom he may dis- 

 cuss farm topics and crop prospects. He is 

 apt to lose his jolly good nature and to grow 

 irritable. 



He gets but scant sympathy from his wife 



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