244 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



" This is the explanation," says the witness ; " the 

 increase of population and manufactures, has brought 

 the skirts of the town upon me. I have opened a 

 new street or two ; I have already sold three very 

 charming sites at prices which cover all my original 

 payment, and I have some half-dozen in hand, after 

 the sale of which I shall still have my homestead 

 with some four or five acres, which I can afford to 

 devote to horticultural pursuits ; or if my wife insists 

 and when she does insist she insists pretty strongly 

 I can retire to town with my investment trebled." 



Results of Inquiry. 



I HAVE thus brought to view through the vehicle 

 of an imaginary examination and in the interest 

 of my friend Mr. Urban, and similar inquirers all 

 the aspects of a fifty-acre farm purchased at the East, 

 with which I am familiar. The inquiry as herein set 

 forth, may possibly help him to an intelligible decision. 

 There may be learned from it, I think First : 

 that with unlimited means, and the simple wish to 

 lavish them in country employments, it matters very 

 little where a man may establish himself, or what 

 special whim he adopts whether for fine cattle, or 

 horticultural successes ; but he may be assured that 



