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MR. GREEN'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND OF fflS 

 NEIGHBOR SOLES. 



In the month of May I bade farewell to bricks and mortar and 

 pavements and the narrow street in which I made my money, 

 and established myself and family in the vicinity of the pleasant 

 village of Grassdale. The farm of which I was the proprietor, 

 and intended to be the manager, had been put in complete order 

 by my agent. The old house had been repaired by an architect 

 from the city, at an expense not greatly exceeding the cost of a 

 new and larger one. An upholsterer, who had been sent on an 

 embassy thither before our departure from the city, had displayed 

 his skill and consulted his interest in arrangino; articles of furni- 

 ture in his line. A portion of the furniture of our city residence 

 was despatched in advance, and suitably aiTanged; so that when 

 we arrived we found all things in order. 



But we found that which we supposed to be our wisdom in 

 in this matter was our folly. We had nothing to do. We had 

 deprived ourselves of the pleasure of putting things in order. 

 After a few dark " days of nothingness," my wife actually pro- 

 posed to turn everything upside down, in the house, that we 

 might enjoy the pleasure of setting them " to rights," as the 

 phrase is in Grassdale. But after mature deliberation this plan 

 was abandoned. 



I found that what we had thought to be our wisdom in this 

 matter was our folly in another respect. I was very desirous of 

 being on good terms with my country neighbors. I am not cer- 

 tain but that the idea of being justice of the peace or having a 

 seat in the legislature may have mingled itself with my 

 visions of retirement. Now if I had come on with my furniture 

 and family at the same time, and had called on my neighbors for 

 assistance and advice, they would have rendered it copiously and 

 joyously. Half the men and all the women in the vicinity would 

 have been on the spot; every package would have been opened 



