OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



in an island-garden. There are charming 

 places, so far as banks and trees and water 

 view go, along the far away shores of Long 

 Island, but it is a long day's journey to reach 

 them over a road where nobody travels. 

 There are very grateful, inaccessible nooks in 

 Rockland County, where 



" A. hermit hoar, in solemn cell," 



might wear out life's "evening gray," very 

 jolUly; but no man who wants his flowers to 

 catch a new tint from the reflected grace of 

 fair faces, wishes to bury himself there. There 

 are magnificent grazing farms in the wilds of 

 Greene County, great waves of rolUng hills, 

 great Tors oif shaggy, shaded clif¥, great wealth 

 of brooks, purling amid the undulations of the 

 meadows, great rampant crests of forest 

 growth, with century-old hemlocks piling out 

 of them their wondrous pagodas of green; 

 but who wants the torture of a drive over the 

 Catskills to enjoy it all? 



Mr. Urban does not, neither do I. 



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