- Vic and his family live in a city flat and the heat becomes intolerable. He decides to move to the country and get cooled off, and he finds an agent who sells you a bungalow, a dollar down and a dollar every once in a while later. The agent shows him a bungalow on a map. "Swept by ocean breezes, no mosquitoes, and a short distance from the station." He rushes home with the map and his wife is so delighted she insists that they move at once. When the furniture is loaded on the van the family all climbs on, to see that nothing is broken, and the start is made. The trip from the flat to the place where they think the house is is full of funny incidents, and Vic resolves that the next time he buys a bungalow, he will look at the house, not the map.
- Vic is living in one of those city flats where there is everything except fresh air. So his wife decides that Vic should get busy and look for a country place. The children must have a place with fresh air and green grass. Vic visits a real estate agent. He shows Vic a picture of a bungalow and the location at Bentwood Ave. and Proposed Street on the map. It is "swept by the ocean breezes" and is absolutely devoid of mosquitoes. Vic agrees to take the place. He pays his deposit and the balance is to be paid monthly. Vic arrives home with the maps and photos of the bungalow and shows them to his wife and children, and they dance with joy. The family arranges to move at once. The milk man arrives just as they have all the furniture on the wagon. He has a bill and Mrs. Vic discovers that she has left her purse in the dresser drawer, which is packed on the wagon, and, much to the displeasure of the moving men, they must unload to get at the dresser. After reaching it, it is not to be found, and Mrs. Vic remembers that she left it on the shelf upstairs. The milk man is paid and the wagon is reloaded. Mrs. Vic is so worried about the effects on the wagon that she insists they go along with it. They all pile on the wagon, kids and all, and off they go. As they go down Main Street they come upon a seed store and Vic suggests that they stop so he can get some seed. etc. He does; in fact, he gets everything ever used in a garden, or a farm, including some "succotash seed." He piles it all on the wagon, and off they go again. En route to the bungalow a garden hose which he has bought manages to become undone and causes no end of trouble to the pedestrians. They travel along for a couple of hours and come upon a bungalow which Vic insists must be the house, as it looks like the picture the agent showed him, and they stop and unload the family. Vic goes to the house as the owner comes out and Vic shows him the map. He tells Vic that his place is two miles further out. The whole party is disappointed, and off they start again. It is soon lunch time, and Vic makes the moving man stop, so he can feed the family. They spread a cloth on the ground and soon they are all at it. Finished, they are off again, and presently they come upon the location mentioned in the map. It is a street, as yet undeveloped, and more like a cow path. Vic feels there must be some mistake. He stops a stranger to ask him if he knows where Proposed Street is. The stranger tells him he is on the street. Vic then spots a little bungalow at the upper end of the alleged street and is sure that it must be the house. It is. He tells the moving men to go ahead, but the ground is so soft the wagon gets stuck, and there is nothing left to do, but to all get off and push. They all do this, but it is of no avail, so it is a case of unload the wagon and carry it up. Everybody is made to work, including the children, and at the finish they are all much the worse for wear, to which is added the following moral: "If you want to buy a house in the country, don't look at a map. Look at the house."
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