218 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



A far more serious objection which is made 

 to my plan of life is that it is not fair to my 

 children. I have had the advantage of good 

 schools, I have been sent abroad to study, I 

 have had years of life among people who know 

 something of books and art. It may be very 

 well for me to desert from the ranks, and 

 settle down in the woods, intellectually speak- 

 ing, of this end of Long Island. This is a 

 serious question. Had I never conceived the 

 idea of seceding, I should at this time be pay- 

 ing rent for a little house or an apartment 

 in some part of New York City, or what is 

 more likely I should live most of the year in 

 some of the little settlements, within easy rail- 

 road distance from New York, which dot the 

 Jersey hills. Years ago, before my eyes were 

 opened, I paid seven hundred dollars a year for 

 a cottage in just such a settlement. With that 

 expense and the cost of three months' board in 

 New York, for newspaper work makes it neces- 

 sary for me to be in New York at least that 

 length of time, I may say that my rent was 

 about a thousand dollars, a moderate sum, and 

 yet large enough, when taken in connection 

 with the other expenses of servants and house- 



