Recreation and amusement were as
much a part of their programme as tilling the soil, teaching school or
keeping house. To wake up every morning eager to begin an active,
interesting, joyful day, without a thought of anxiety--that was their
ideal, and, like their other ideals, this was fairly realized.
Our critics held that we had no moral right to give up a whole day each
week just for fun. This might have been true had we been trying to get
rich, but getting rich was not the first object we contemplated. Other
things came before wealth-seeking, but, all the same, in competition
with those who thought ill of our ways, we beat them all to pieces. In
Boston markets Brook Farm products were at a premium and found quicker
sale at better prices than the West Roxbury farmers and gardeners could
command. They sent potatoes in the bottom of a wagon; apples in a soap
box; berries in a battered tin pail and butter in an old cracked crock;
none of these things being particularly clean. Our girls put up our
garden stuffs in neat, regular parcels.
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