reasons I should like it; and for some others, I would rather have another one.  I feel like I would be willing and would indeed love to go away off to a distant county and begin anew, and grow up with the country; if you were ten years younger, but with what you have undergone in the army, I can't expect you to come home at 42 with the strength of 30 years:  it would in my opinion be best for us to sell here, at as high figures as the Petroleum excitement can raise it, and buy a farm under cultivation with good improvements; and although it would be pleasant to live near the Capital, it will always cost us more to live, and our taxes will always be much higher than in adjoining Co's. You spoke of thinking of Story Co as a future home; I never thought I would like there, but I think I would like any section of the country now, to get settled in my own home again
