CHAPTER VI.
LIVING AT A CONVENIENT DISTANCE.
THERE are few of us who do not feel, at some time in life, the desire for change.

Indeed, change of place corresponding, as it does, in outward nature, to change of state in the mind, it is not at all surprising that we should, now and then, feel a strong desire to remove from the old, and get into new locations, and amid different external associations.

Thus, we find, in many families, an ever recurring tendency to removal.

Indeed, I have some housekeeping friends who are rarely to be found in the same house, or in the same part of the city, in any two consecutive years.

Three moves, Franklin used to say, were equal to a fire.