The Romance and Tragedy
efore we were quite in accord with the sentiment
rmhouse, improved by a piazza; but the interior, under the deft hands and good tas
t high; but this did not distress us, though in our parlor,
of a house set on a little elevation, in the center of a rather rough
th from the piazza to the road, set out an arbor-vitae hedge, made
n, but the kitchen garden was my hobby, and with all the enthus
ones, the soil was rich and productive. I met with wonderful success, and t
rked for two or three hours. Then a bath, followed by breakfast, and after a day in town,
enjoy th
for digging up the seed to see if it had sproute
out charge, and in melon season I picked the melons
the thought of thos
lf, practically by my own labor, added
most of the distance through a private la
s interesting; but not so the people, at least to us. It w
what we sought-a pleasant, comfortable home,
ntire expenditure was but thirteen hundred dollars, which w
ys, and these little visits we always enjoyed; but to each other my wife and I were
y "love in
way, and with wife and babies take a drive, our favorite ride having as an objecti
tural beauty with Morris County, New Jersey, and we commanded the best of this, in rather antiqu
o mind an incident of later years which
nt Comfort, and while we were there John Jacob As
few old negroes with disreputable "foh de wah" vehicles and horses that could only get over the poor
o of these hacks standing in front of
ne I selected had been washed probably at least once that season, w
d on our return met the o
g positively the worst-looking turnout I ever saw, wa
der such conditions, struck me first as ludicrous and then as a living example of the g
the day. With only one maid, my wife had no difficulty in keeping bu