Sure Cure
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Travel is a good invention to cure the blues and condense worldly effects. When Cutaway went to California, “I carried,” said he, “a pile of despondency, and more baggage, boots, and boxes, than would fit out a caravan. After an absence of just fourteen calendar months, I started homewards, and was so boiling over with hope and fond anticipation, that I could hardly keep in my old boots! And all the dunnage I had left, wouldn’t fill a pocket-handkerchief, or sell to a paper-maker for four cents!”
Cutaway recommends seeing the worldy elephant, high, for settling one’s mind, and scattering goods, gold, and chattels.