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buy them, partly because people have their 

 own farm supplies, there being no regular busi- 

 ness done in those things, and partly because 

 the prices which obtain in July and August, 

 when the summer boarders or cottagers come 

 to be plucked, regulate the prices of the year. 

 In the three years that have gone by since 

 then, the difficulties and advantages of the 

 scheme have defined themselves. I can say 

 that in my own case, at least, this mode of life 

 is infinitely preferable for a poor man to any 

 other that I have discovered. I do not say 

 that if some great-uncle in India should leave 

 me a fortune, I would not make some changes 

 in the direction of greater sport and less actual 

 labor, for there is labor in the raising of cab- 

 bages. And yet I confess that my pleasure 

 over a fortune from the skies would be tem- 

 pered with the knowledge that I should no 

 longer take satisfaction in raising cabbages for 

 the cabbages' sake. I might go on working 

 my home acre, but it would be with something 

 of the discontent with which I used to work a 

 bedroom gymnastic apparatus in the days be- 

 fore I deserted the city. When I get through 



