No House Was To Be Found In The
Immediate Neighbourhood, Save A Small Dilapidated Log Tenement, On
An Adjoining Farm (Which Was Scarcely Reclaimed From The Bush) That
Had Been Some Months Without An Owner.
The merchant assured is that
this could be made very comfortable until such time as it suited
R - - to remove, and the owner was willing to let us have it for the
moderate sum of four dollars a month.
Trusting to Mr. B - -'s word, and being strangers in the land,
we never took the precaution to examine this delightful summer
residence before entering upon it, but thought ourselves very
fortunate in obtaining a temporary home so near our own property,
the distance not exceeding half a mile. The agreement was drawn
up, and we were told that we could take possession whenever it
suited us.
The few weeks that I had sojourned in the country had by no means
prepossessed me in its favour. The home-sickness was sore upon me,
and all my solitary hours were spent in tears. My whole soul yielded
itself up to a strong and overpowering grief. One simple word dwelt
for ever in my heart, and swelled it to bursting - "Home!" I repeated
it waking a thousand times a day, and my last prayer before I sank
to sleep was still "Home! Oh, that I could return, if only to die
at home!" And nightly I did return; my feet again trod the daisied
meadows of England; the song of her birds was in my ears; I wept
with delight to find myself once more wandering beneath the fragrant
shade of her green hedge-rows; and I awoke to weep in earnest when I
found it but a dream.
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