The spirit of trade, so characteristic of the Yankee, extends to real estate, and will not allow him to keep a farm more than eight or ten years before he must sell it, and buy another with the pro ceeds. Sometimes he does not move out of the neighbourhood, or he may go into another town or county, or off to the Ear West. The conveyance of real estate here is as free as possible. The whole formality of ‘‘ drawing writings,” .as the construction and signing of the deed are called, and of

MtoAMu.lt the Qf.% f JjQyq l , W'.EQfr peoupy ftwotu4jiNi^ nmay.take place pn the same day on which trhe W mwt: and d®. Tn 6 cost of aft ~pfjcli including, lawyers’ townmerks* fees ana revenue giftingof! course 'pre ventsthe building, up! of a “ family ! eatate;"where 1 one!s descendants may ,ahide: Even if the ruling generation dpsired tq, inaugurate such a regime, {the. .restlessness of Young America iWould forbid it. Farmers’ boys be come professional men or mechanics, jOP, if they,follow the pursuit of their sjjres.gqto new farms on the western 1 dairies, or, remaining in New Eng and, they generally prefer to exchange ithe paternal estate for another; The jfar.ms are never, divided up among the iheirs of a deceased proprietor, as is the {Case in some European countries where .peasant proprietorship prevails, but afe bought by one of the heirs of the .others* or by a stranger. The effect !of these short tenures on the improve ment of the estates is curious. It pro bably discourages the undertaking ot those permanent enterprises, like drain [mg, the fruition of which lies in the jdistant future. On the other band) it stimulates those minor improvements Ithe effects of which aremore immediate. A farmer rarely moves on toanewestate | without repairing the fences and barns land “ fixing up ’’ the bouse. Each suc ceeding owner introduces some new convenience—some little more modern i improvement. In fact, old-fashioned, ill-arranged, ill-ventilated bouses are much more likely to be removed or re modelled by the kindly rough hand of some new comer than by an occupant who has lived in them for many years, or for one or two generations. 