A RICH POOR MAN AND A POOR RICH ONE. 1 1 



negro, a man of sixty years of age, some- 

 thing of a philosopher, with the resources of a 

 Yankee, and the irresponsibility of a tramp. 

 With his wife and children he leads the life of 

 fisherman and gardener. His nets give him all 

 the fish he needs and to sell ; his garden patch 

 supplies him with vegetables for the year ; in 

 summer he is his own master, refusing persist- 

 ently to work for others ; in winter he works 

 for others if work presents itself, but as the 

 pork barrel is deep and vegetables plenty, his 

 actual need of money is small. Oysters he can 

 have for the getting. This man has a genuine 

 love of the sunlight and of untainted air. 

 When I sail him a race for home, and we ar- 

 rive wet with the spray which the breeze has 

 thrown at us, he is the first to proclaim his 

 keen enjoyment. He has never known what 

 the heat and dust of a city mean ; nevertheless, 

 he values his life almost as much as I did my 

 brief vacations. Something also of a natural- 

 ist in his way, he does not disdain to carry 

 home with him such queer sea products as may 

 interest him or his grandchildren. Spending al- 

 most no money, his income is actually larger 

 than his expenses, and he is able to pay a small 



