MR. URBAN AND A COUNTRY HOUSE. 275 



w.thout great interference with economic results. 

 For Mr. Urban is bent upon having his corn- 

 patch however much it may cost him ; and bent 

 upon having his trim lines of carrots, his mercers, 

 his half dozen or more of fine cattle, and his pastur- 

 age, where he may watch his Alderneys at their 

 quiet grazing, or their noontide siesta under the 

 trees. 



I give, on the next page, a drawing of his farm as 

 it appeared at the time of his taking possession. 



The house, A, is reasonably sound, and well situ- 

 ated, but small. It will admit of temporary repairs and 

 additions, which he determines upon forthwith. The 

 barn, _Z?, is wholly unfit for his plans, being small, ill- 

 placed, and shaky in its joints. He consults me in 

 regard to the position for a new one, and I advise 

 him to place it in the edge of the mossy old orchard 

 (whose trees are nearly worthless), where a little rise 

 of ground will admit of a cellar underneath both 

 barn and carriage-house. I suggest also in connec- 

 tion with it a cow-stable which shall extend west- 

 ward in order to furnish a protecting lee to his cattle- 

 yard, and to connect immediately with the fields in 

 the rear. 



The fences are terrible in number, but are for- 

 tunately nearly all of rails, and can therefore be 

 placed out of consideration in the new laying out of 



