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supplies, there being no regular business done 

 in those things, and partly because the prices 

 which obtain in July and August when the 

 summer boarders or cottagers come to be 

 plucked, regulate the prices of the year. In 

 the three years that have gone by since then, 

 the difficulties and advantages of the scheme 

 have defined themselves. I can say that in my 

 own case, at least, this mode of life is infinitely 

 preferable for a poor man to any other that I 

 have discovered. I do not say that if some 

 great-uncle in India should leave me a for- 

 tune, I would not make some changes in the 

 direction of greater sport and less actual labor, 

 for there is labor in the raising of cabbages. 

 And yet I confess that my pleasure over a 

 fortune from the skies would be tempered with 

 the knowledge that I should no longer take 

 satisfaction in raising cabbages for the cabbages' 

 sake. I might go on working my home acre, 

 but it would be with something of the discon- 

 tent with which I used to work a bedroom 

 gymnastic apparatus in the days before I 

 deserted the city. When I get through a hard 

 morning's work of hoeing or planting, there is 

 a decided satisfaction in the thought that by 



