OLD AND NEW HOMES. 



CHAPTER II. 



Preparations for Removal. — Leave-takings. — Croakers. — The Journey. — Our New 

 Home. — Busy Times. — Getting fixed. — Jersey Ideas. — Improving Tastes. 



Removing to a new home, at a distance of some hundreds of miles, is 

 no small undertaking, as we soon began to discover. There were so many 

 things to think of! And, when the packing had fairly commenced, we would 

 gladly have parted with many of our superfluous articles of furniture, rather 

 than increase the number of items for boxing and freight. Yet many 

 things of small intrinsic value were endeared to us by long association, 

 none of which could well be spared. My mother fancied that no other place 

 could possess a semblance of the proper home-feeling unless these precious 

 heir-looms were there : hence we went on with our boxing and packing, 

 until, after a week of bare floors and other discomforts, the last day came, 

 and the last load of goods was removed from the now-empty and dreary- 

 looking house that had been home to us for so many years. We took a 

 final look, — not without tears, — and wondered whether it were possible 



