OLD AND NEW HOMES. 

 CHAPTER VI. 



Mr. Brown. — Vineland. — Choosing a Location. — The Marl-pits. — Marvellous 

 Growth. — Enterprise and Industry. — Good Morals. — Building a House. — Finding 

 Friends. — Ambition at Home. — More Improvements. — Satisfactory Results. — Grape- 

 vines. — Retrospect. — Future Hopes. — Blessinjs and Advantages. — Contentment. 



I HAVE been so much interested in describing our own experiences, that 

 I have quite forgotten to speak about our old neighbor Mr. Brown, who 

 was introduced to the reader in my first chapter. At that time, he was 

 looking about for a location ; and, not seeing any thing near us that entirely 

 answered his purpose, he went a little farther down into the heart of Jersey. 

 The village of Vineland, which has risen like magic, and grown into impor- 

 tance within the last si.x years, seemed to be the place for him. He was a 

 younger man than my father ; and the new farming-land, which, only a year 

 or two before, had been covered with a thick growth of scrub-oak and pine, 

 was said to be a promising investment for the prospective fruit-grower. This 

 tract was laid o.T into lots of from tea to thirty acres, with liberal 



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