ADVICE FOR LACKLAND. 35 



Lackland Makes a Beginning. 



MY friend Lackland as I suspected he would 

 has purchased a little place of two and a half 

 acres, some thirty or forty miles from the city by the 



Xew X railway. He makes his trips to and 



fro with a little badly-disguised fear of decayed 

 " sleepers," it is true ; and suffers from the still more 

 frequent embarrassment of riding upon his feet all 

 the seats being occupied, and the company being 

 unfortunately too much straitened in their circum- 

 stances to add to the number of their carriages. 

 He was disposed to resent such things at the start, 

 and was even stirred into writing a brief and indig- 

 nant appeal to an independent morning journal ; but 

 upon being answered by an attorney for the company 

 or a road commissioner, who called him names and 

 abused him, as if he had been a witness before a 

 court of justice, he subsided into that meek respect 

 for corporations, and awe of all their procedure, 

 which are the characteristics of a good American 

 citizen, and of most well-ordered newspapers. 



New Yorkers learn how to bear such things ; 

 there is no better schooling for submission than a 

 two or three years course of travel upon the city 

 railways ; Lackland is submissive. And after a 



