Five Acres Too Much - A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as Involved in Amateur Farming, With Much Valuable Advice and Instruction to Those About Pur... #249473

There are many such places near New York. Gorgeous villas dot the banks of the Hudson, and congregate together thickly on Staten Island; there are beautiful spots along the coves of Westchester County, and persons who do not mind expatriating themselves go to Jersey; but there is one locality that far surpasses all others. The steep banks of the Hudson, cut Off as they are from the westerly winds by the Palisades and higher hills beyond them, are uncomfortably hot; Staten Island is overrun by sour krout-eating, lager-beer-drinking, and small-bird shooting Germans, who trespass with Teutonic de termination wherever their notions of sportsmanship or the influence of lager leads them; Westchester County, like Some of our famous pm'ma donnas, is fair to look upon, but great on shakes — too much so for perfect repose; and Jersey will be a pleasant place to live in when the inhabitants, individually and as a government, cease to live off strangers.