MR. URBAN AND A COUNTRY HOUSE 



back my purchase money and costs, or a sum 

 ranging within fifty per cent, of the same? 



6th. What are the best cattle to keep, (sup- 

 posing I purchase), and are any pears better 

 upon the whole than the Bartletts, and do 

 you know of a maid of all work, who would 

 milk upon a pinch, and stay away from mass 

 for a fortnight; and is the patent churn, on 

 show at the corner of Broadway and Cedar 

 street, really a good article? 



7th. Which do you think the best for eggs, 

 the Brahma Poutras, or the Cochin Chinas, 

 and do they require much care? 



8th. What do you think of Jersey for a 

 country residence? 



When a man's rambling conversation for 

 two or three hours is capable of digest into 

 such interrogative formula, it is evident that 

 he has some rural intentions ; and I proceed to 

 reply to such (in behalf of my friend Urban) 

 seriously and seriatim. 



The price of land, within the required dis- 

 tance of New York, is as variable as the 

 weather. There are lands within a radius of 

 a hundred miles of the City Hall, equipped 

 with rocks and trees, which would be dear at 

 ten dollars the acre, and there are lands within 

 the same radius, equipped with rocks and 



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