At a certain season of our life omed to consider

    every spot as te of a hus surveyed

    try on every side hin a dozen miles of where I live.  In

    imagination I  all the farms in succession, for all were

    to be bougheir price.  I walked over each farmers

    premises, tasted h him,

    took   any price, mortgaging it to him in my

    mind; even put a  -- took everyt a deed of

    it -- took o talk --

    cultivated it, and oo to some extent, I trust, and hdrew

    on.  this

    experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate

    broker by my friends.  , t live, and the

    landscape radiated from me accordingly.   is a  a

    sedes, a seat? -- better if a country seat.  I discovered many a

    site for a  likely to be soon improved, w

    too far from t to my eyes the village

    oo far from it.  ell, t live, I said; and there I

    did live, for an er life; saw how I could

    let t ter the spring

    come in.  ture inants of they may

    place t ticipated.  An

    afternoon sufficed to lay out to orc, and

    pasture, and to decide o

    stand before ted tree could be seen to

    t advantage; and t it lie, fallow, perchance, for a

    man is ricion to things which he can

    afford to let alone.

    My imagination carried me so far t I even he refusal of

    several farms -- ted -- but I never got my

    fingers burned by actual possession.  t t I came to