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42 TuE l\hTFOR
~r. ~uburbunite-a Q!':tt1be.St1! on lRutttl JLife
After much urging on the part of my friend, William, I at last accepted his invitation to visit him at his suburban home. W e caught an accommodation (after a breathless run of three blocks) to ride the short distance of fiye mi]eq, amid
such n jaiD and crowd and bustle as only found on the after- noon train. .A. sickl~· feeling came over me as I thought of all1hese poor misguided people, who had had sollle real estate agent. tell them of all the joys and pleasures of rural life. And in the bosom of each there surged a feeling of pride, J'ea more. a paternal love for each few acr(>::l of land which they had purchased.
Well, to get back to William (\\'hich I find ,·ery hard he- cause poor Will has fonud a fcllo\\' cntlmsiast em the subject of 1.m:mxo). Willinm, a simple, good-heatit>d chap, means well, and has n•1·y few vices. TTe works hard all day in a stuffy little hole of :m uffice (my ofTicc, in f:\c1), and hn!' jnst been inoculated by the ;;crm of rmalism. Ho iA now standi11g almost facing me, and completely ohliYions to my exiAfenre. Tlw mnn who for nt least fhe minute:; has been standing on my one and only pet, seems 1o know sometlti11g nhout raising rndishe:; and is imparting his iH{onna1inn 1o \Vill, who Mands with both ears cocked for\Yard drinking in e,•ery word. 'To my pain and sorrow, and the ruinntion of a new pair of shoes, tlwsc two would-be farmers ha\'o quite a discuo;::lion. I stand th~ ronrwnt as Ion~:"' fl~h ntl