A little sum laid aside for burial money--a few clapboards around, and shingles overhead, on a lot of American soil owned-- a few dollars to supply the year's plain clothing and food -- and what more? and then away; with these as for me these are enough. Prudence does not overleap itself. Prudence has interminable eyes, and rejects money, What have you supposed Modern prudence ! . . moneymaking: Abandonment of such a being as you are to the toss and pallor of years, To become be a doer of deceits, and underhanded dodgings, infinitessimals of parlors ^ . . . . a shameless stuffer while others starve, Loser of all the bloom and odor of the earth, and of flowers, atmosphere, sea, and of the true taste of the women and men you pass or have to do with in youth or middle age, Receiver of the issuing sickness and revolt of the close of a life without elevation or naivete, Chatterer of the ghastly chatter of a death without serenity or majesty