WILL YOU WALK INTO MY GARDEN? 15 



a poor investment, securing but slight and pre- 

 carious return. Possibly these pages may sug- 

 gest better things. 



There are thousands in cities pining for the 

 pure healthful air of the country. There are 

 multitudes shut up within tenement-houses and 

 brick walls, and paying roundly for their pris- 

 ons too, where their children grow up pale and 

 sickly, like plants in the shade, poisoned physi- 

 cally and morally by the conditions of their life, 

 who might have a home on some breezy hill- 

 side, that would almost, if not more, than pay its 

 own way. But I mean to draw no rose-colored 

 pictures, nor indulge in misleading generalities. 

 By country, I do not mean swamps, or low lands 

 where the mosquitoes keep up the old allopathic 

 treatment, and bleed a man to a skeleton, and 

 then chills and fever step in, and finish him by 

 shaking his bones loose. I mean land with good 

 drainage. Without that, speculators may ro- 



