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for evenings and ample fireplaces are also neces- 

 sary. By making our home in the wilderness, 

 if a lovely little village can be called a wilder- 

 ness, we are able to fit it with every con- 

 venience and comfort, for such things cost but 

 little money, after all. I do not suppose that 

 my whole investment, land and buildings, but 

 not including the furniture, rugs, and fixtures 

 that were brought here from the city when I 

 gave up work for sport, would represent an 

 outlay of more than $3000, and in estimat- 

 ing my yearly expenses, I put down rent as 

 $150 a year, that being the interest upon this 

 amount. 



As I needed no large amount of land, for an 

 acre suffices amply for all my purposes, I was 

 enabled to buy almost in the heart of a village 

 where land always has a certain value; and 

 certainly with the improvements I have made 

 my purchase has not deteriorated. Had I been 

 compelled to go far away from the village, such 

 a thing as selling out would have been out of 

 the question, for of all the impossible things 

 to sell, country property far from a station is 

 the most hopeless. Not that I have any idea 



