The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-14

sue1Su v ILL., Id44 LlfeesG0fe OF CITY beIles. tie
! declares marriage humbug, and regards wo-
man as creature whose sole trade is to get mar
rled and settled. And now. at the ripe age OF
fWenty-slJ, having run through the progra ANNE
he IL anxious to throw up his engagements ufHe
OF the stage, and hide behind the green curtain
Of The grave. Is the description correct p
- Y You should be an artist. Eastman Yours
is a perfect picture. >
. Well then allow NE to proceed. You are
rusting out, soul and body. You are il mere
cipher, blot on The fair page Of life the
vorld is the worse for your having lived in il
the air is impure for you, and for thousands
like you, who have beathed it. And DOW, one
question. Neuld You be willing to reform this
miserable existence Of yours? Reform ii alto
gether p
. Yes, if ii would not require too great an Ell
fort
" llumph Guy Marchmont, reuse yourself,
Be once more man have no patience with
you, and such as you 60 to work Try ID.
Dor, hard, physical labor, The kind which ere
ates an appetlie.an forms solid bone and sinev
I Make lis acquaintance in good earnest 1t is
the only thing that can saveyou from moral and
physical shipwreck 80
s. v hat shall / do. Hire out to shovel
gravel on the railway, al seventy cents a day :?
Or would you advise me TO turn my attention
TO farming nave an idea that could build
grand stone wal, or hole plough cornnae II
.,
white hands for his friends inspection.
The very thing - cried DR.. Easrna1, with
enthusiasm. Just what ] was about to REG
om1nend Yes, 60 TO farming by al means !!
There Is poetry farmer life, more real poe
try in one day beneath the blue summer sky. on
the wild, free hills Of the country, than you
would fnd IN ten year 5 city dissipation Yes.
Marohmont, farming is the thing tor you -
At the time Guy Marchmont gave Lis friend 5
advice little heed, but afterw ard il occurred TO
him that Frank Eastman was q sensible fellow
and that his opinion was entitled TO some con-
siderauon.
Why should he not reform his idle lie and be-
come, IN the tree sense Of tie word. q man
There wss enough Of him left TO achieve some
thing yet. He had been unpardonably INDECENT
and useless, but his powers had not been &C.
srroyed they were only latent, and needed hut
an effort Of the will to call them forth
What if he should make an experiment?
Already the year was bringing along tDe ear
" April crocuses and snow-balls before long it
would be summer, and then everybody would
leave the city for the watering places. He de-
tested watering places Niagara, Saratoga and
Newpo- he had done" to death. Farming
had plea int sound for him: farmers were
independent.
HewouId buy farm. Yes, farm OF has
Own. And then he could do Us ne chose with
Lis turnIps and cabbages, without the interfar-
ence OF anv landlord. Westmore some 80 mile
from Boston. be had heard praised for the fine
farms in ii and for ". be bent his course.
He looked at the paper to find the hour the
train left for W Precisely O'Clock. Thai
was hours before his usual time oil rising but
he guessed he could endure it for once. And
the next morning he astonsbed al ms friends
bv reaching the depot in season for the first train
His earlv breakfast and bis brisk walk had pro
duccd quite Id effect on our indo]ent friend and
be experieuced considerable e1hileranon as the
cars swept through the fresh woodlands and
over tie smooth, green interrales. Westmore
was reached long before dinner. and, to his
oreat amazement Marchmsnt felt decided aI-
petite for the beefsteak and omelettes that
graced the table at the s. Roaring Lion.
Dinner dispatched, he proceeded 10 make in
ouiries touching the saleable farms il the vicin-
iry and before sunset Of that day, with the
help and countenance Of q mine host, " be found
himself the proprietor Of red farm house and
fifteen acres Of land. situated three miles south
Of the village Of Westnore.
Three weeks afterward >lr. Marehmont took
possession Of his new estate, to which be was
accom- panied by his housekeeper, Mrs. Grant,
and his French cook
This much accomplished Mr.. Marchment
felt strongly inclined TO subside for season,
and enjoy little rest but his neighhors as
,,airhbors will be. were much interested in the
new comer's business and would permit nothing
of the kind They sought every opportunity
! of in nforming him that it was full time to con
mence operations, if be calculated on having
anv harvest to gather, and assured him thai be
would never be farmer unless be begun plough
IN Auril