The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . , ofwhich the total purchase is trifling, rather than to be investing largelyin land under such adverse circumstances. These ideas have causedme to think this, under the circumstances, a judicious purchase. Ithink I run no risk of a loss greater than a hundred dollars in resaleat any time. The place is very desirable for a mechanic, and the houseis such as would satisfy the tastes and ideas of the laboring classesmuch better than mine. The business sagacity of our young minister was vindicatedby the issue, for when the day for resale came, he did b
The life and letters of Robert Lewis Dabney . , ofwhich the total purchase is trifling, rather than to be investing largelyin land under such adverse circumstances. These ideas have causedme to think this, under the circumstances, a judicious purchase. Ithink I run no risk of a loss greater than a hundred dollars in resaleat any time. The place is very desirable for a mechanic, and the houseis such as would satisfy the tastes and ideas of the laboring classesmuch better than mine. The business sagacity of our young minister was vindicatedby the issue, for when the day for resale came, he did betterthan he had hoped. He was no mean farmer, and SleepyHollow took on a look ot thrift. The repair of the buildingsgave a pleasant as well as profitable sphere, in which lie took atleast all necessary physical exercise. Here they lived com-fortably for three years, his salary being six hundred kept two good horses and two cows. He hired a negroman and a cook, lived well, and was as happy as a king, andentertained much The Pastorate of Tinkling Spring. 119 After a while he had a chance to sell Sleepy Hollow, andthinking his wife had a right to a better home, he sold it forthirteen hundred dollars, which covered his outlay, and boughtone hundred and twenty acres of land, lying about two milesdistant from Sleepy Hollow/ on the road from the church toSouth River, and about a mile from the church. On this place,which he called Stony Point, he built a stone cottage, whichhe regarded as a very peculiar, picturesque, and tasteful house,and within, a perfect little snuggery. He built this house, inpart, of the stone cut out of the living rock on which the housewas founded. By finding his quarry there, he made room for acellar of suitable proportions. With his own shoulder he helpedto put many, perhaps most, of the stones in place, and formedstronger local attachments for the place than for Hampden-Sidney, or any other place in which he ever lived. In his olddays
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