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Show DAY DREAMS IN HIS "Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad says of Captain Allistoun, born on the shores of the sea and knowing nothing but the life of a sailor from boyhood until old age: "He wished to end his days In a little lit-tle house, with a plot of ground attachedfar at-tachedfar In the country out of sight of the sea." It is a common feeling with which we delude ourselves, that when the active work of life Is ended and we are retired, too old or too Indifferent to work, we shall find pleasure in an environment with which we have been hitherto unfamiliar, in tasks which are new u vs, in a daily routine full of novel experiences. My father thought so. Through all his sixty years or more he had lived a life of toll and pretty largely in the open. He had been a laborer in England Eng-land and was used to long hours with no double pay for overtime. Sometimes Some-times (luring the winter months, I have heard him say, he never saw daylight excepting on Sunday. After he came to America he was a farmer, ppending his time mostly out of doors, his days given to planting and !iarvest:g the crops, in looking after the stock, and In doing the manual things with which a fanner's life is taken up. I have often lieurd hlni soy that when he was sixty-five he was going to give up the strenuous life of the farm and move to town, where he might have time to smoke his pipe In peace and to do the reading read-ing of which he was very fond. He had even picked out the little house In which he was to find comfort com-fort and leisure. Ifis day dream was never realized, however. He (lied at sixty-three without having had a chance to carry out his plan. I do not now recall what happened to Captain Allistoun, hut If lie ever got his little country house with Its plot of ground I am pretty sure he was not quite contented snd happy. Few people are who make such ch a n res. Most of us dream that In some other surroundings than thou in which we tlnd ourselves we should find happl ness and contentment, and we plan when old age bring!) us leisure and opportunity to seek these out. It y generally a mistake. Most people whom I have known who have trice the experiment have not found th( happiness they soncht. It was onlj l day dream unrealized. The old l:fe Is the best. |