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“One of the most disgraceful features of life in the country, Father often declared, was the general inefficiency and slackness of small villages tradesmen.  He said he had originally supposed that such men were interested in business, and that that was why they had opened their shops and sunk capital in them, but no, they never used it for anything but gossip and sleep.  They took no interest in civilized ways.  Hadn´t heard of them, probably.  He said that of course if he were camping out on the veldt or the tundra, he would expect few conveniences in the neighborhood and would do his best to forego them, buy why should he be confronted with the wilds twenty miles from New York? “

Father wakes up the village -  Clarence Day