ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



ends, with any suggestions for a change on 

 the score of neatness or good looks, you will 

 find him, very likely, fortified with his own 

 "idees" on that subject — "ideas," which, like 

 the independent American citizen that he is, he 

 is in no mood to relinquish. 



"He can't git a livin' by looks," and with such 

 speech shrewdly uttered, and emphasized with 

 a rattling horse-laugh, he floors your blandest 

 suggestions. Yet a wholesome attention to 

 neatness on your own score, which shall creep 

 up to the edge of his enclosures, and work by 

 contrast, will in time operate insensibly upon 

 him. — There is something after all "very 

 catching" in good order. 



But most of all, the co-operation of all the 

 town's people, who are disposed to neatness, 

 is to be relied upon. Every country place of 

 any size should have its "village-improve- 

 ment society," to look after the planting of 

 shade trees, the proper condition of high- 

 ways, the arrest of stray cattle, and to discuss 

 and carry into execution whatever may pro- 

 mote the thrift and attractive appearance of 

 the place, — whether in the way of new streets, 

 laying down of side-walks, or removal of of- 

 fensive debris or noxious weeds. I commend 

 most heartily to Lackland the instigation and 



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