36 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



fatiguing day in Maiden Lane, having come up 

 Fourth Avenue with a stout woman in his lap, he 

 is grateful for even a standpoint upon one of the 

 New X cars. 



But this is all by the way. 



My friend Lackland has, as I said, bought a small 

 country place within a mile of village and station, 

 for which the purchase-money, in round numbers, was 

 six thousand dollars. A certain proportion of this 

 sum was paid in view of a projected horse railway, 

 which is to pass the door, and to unfold building 

 sites over his whole area of land. As yet, however, 

 it is in the rough. There is indeed " a brand-new 

 house upon it two stories, and only three years 

 built," as he writes me, " with ell wash-room, and 

 all well painted with two coats of white lead. The 

 property is distributed into six different enclosures, 

 of which I send you a draught." 



And herewith I give the exhibit of Mr. Lack- 

 land's little place, with its condition at time of pur- 

 chase. 



" You will observe," he continues, " that there is 

 rather a cramped aspect about the door-yard and 

 entrance, these being hemmed in by a white picket 

 fence on either side and in front. It is unfortunately 

 the only sound fence about the premises ; the garden 

 (c) showing a tottering remnant of one of the same 



