On the property was a farm-house more than one hundred years old,
and this the owner repaired and improved by building an extra room
and a piazza across the front of the house.

The rent was two hundred dollars a year. We moved there early in
April. The last night in the Brooklyn house I had one of my worst
attacks of rheumatism. _I have never had the slightest twinge of
it since._

Blessed be New Jersey!




CHAPTER IX

SUBURBAN LIFE.



We had been in our new home but a very few days before we were
quite in accord with the sentiment that "God made the country and
man made the town."

The house in its exterior was the ordinary, old-fashioned,
one-and-a-half story farmhouse, improved by a piazza; but the
interior, under the deft hands and good taste of my wife, had an
appearance both home-like and cozy that was very attractive.

We had to get accustomed to the low ceilings, only seven feet