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have shown that bankruptcy need not result 

 from such a course, providing there is a small 

 income, so small that most men who reach 

 middle age have it at their disposal. And in 

 such a case there is the possibility of getting 

 also out of the city some of its advantages, 

 for there are several months in the depth of 

 winter when there is nothing to be done, either 

 in the way of sport or work, in the country. I 

 have gone so far as to say that even if country 

 life meant entire isolation from the city, and 

 dependence for a living on the money which 

 may be made in the country, even then there is 

 much to be said in favor of such a move. 

 Nevertheless, money is not plenty in the coun- 

 try, and if a man and his family are not pre- 

 pared to live in the simplest possible fashion, 

 and to undergo some little privations, better by 

 far stick to the ills that they know of. 



