I soon discharged the duties of my remaining farewells, and in less than half an hour, was more than a mile distant from Garrett Park and its inhabitants.

I can't say that for one, who, like me, is fond of being made a great deal of, that there is any thing very delightful in those visits into the country.

It may be all well enough for married people, who, from the mere fact of being married, are always entitled to certain consideration, put--par exemple--into a bed-room, a little larger than a dog kennel, and accommodated with a looking-glass, that does not distort one's features like a paralytic stroke.

But we single men suffer a plurality of evils and hard-ships, in entrusting ourselves to the casualties of rural hospitality.

We are thrust up into any attic repository--exposed to the mercy of rats, and the incursions of swallows.