ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



even a standpoint upon one of the New X 



cars. 



But this is all by the way. 



My friend Lackland has, as I said, bought 

 a small country place within a mile of village 

 and station, for which the purchase-money, in 

 round numbers, was six thousand dollars. A 

 certain proportion of this sum was paid in 

 view of a projected horse railway, which is to 

 pass the door, and to unfold building sites 

 over his whole area of land. As yet, how- 

 ever, it is in the rough. There is indeed "a 

 brand-new house upon it — two stories, and 

 only three years built," as he writes me, "with 

 ell wash-room, and all well painted with two 

 coats of white lead. The property is dis- 

 tributed into six different enclosures, of which 

 I send you a draught." 



And herewith I give the exhibit of Mr. 

 Lackland's little place, with its condition at 

 time of purchase. 



"You will observe," he continues, "that 

 there is rather a cramped aspect about the 

 door-yard and entrance, these being hemmed 

 in by a white picket fence on either side and 

 in front. It is unfortunately the only sound 

 fence about the premises; the garden (c) 

 showing a tottering remnant of one of the 



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