OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



from any want of respect for those Pomolo- 

 gists who are boldly leading the van in the 

 prosecution of the Art; but I have wished sim- 

 ply to clear away a little platform from which 

 to talk about the wants of humble cultivators, 

 and the way in which those wants are to be 

 met. 



And here my old question recurs — what 

 shall be done for them? 



To give my reply definite shape, I picture 

 to myself my old friend Lackland, who has 

 grown tired of thumping over the city pave- 

 ments, who has two or three young children 

 to whom he wishes to give a free tumble on 

 the green sward, and who has an intense de- 

 sire to pick his grapes off his own vine, in- 

 stead of buying them on Broadway at forty 

 cents the pound. He comes to me for advice. 



"My dear fellow," I should say, "there 's no 

 giving any intelligible advice to a man whose 

 notions are so crude. Do you want a country 

 home for the year, or only a half home for six 

 months in the year, from which you '11 be flit- 

 ting when the leaves are gone?" 



"To be sure," says he, "it 's worth consid- 

 ering. And yet what difference could it make 

 with your suggestions? Once established, I 

 could determine better." 



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