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Upon further inquiry I learned that 

 these oxen have the good luck to live 

 out the full number of their days in the 

 peaceful pastures and the protective 

 barns near the scene of their former 

 strenuous labors. 



Some farmers have been disposed to 

 ridicule Air. Terry for sacrificing dol- 

 lars and beef since no butcher will ever 

 be allowed to plant an axe head be- 

 tween those oxen's horns. To see 

 these animals thus spending their last 

 days in happiness was to me the hap- 

 piest possible termination of the long 



learn more of their present circum- 

 stances and future prospects, I made 

 bold to visit the bungalow and to ask 

 questions. Here I discovered an in- 

 teresting method of getting near to 

 the heart of nature, delightfully rest- 

 ful after days and months amid the 

 strife, turmoil and bedlam of almost 

 the central part of New York City. 



The fylfot bungalow of Air. and Airs. 

 Walter P. Terry is the antithesis of a 

 residence near to the busy marts of 

 Twenty-third Street, New York City. 

 It appears, as ascertained upon inquiry, 



'DELIGHTFULLY RESTFUL AFTER DAYS AND MONTHS AMID THE STRIFE, TURMOIL AND 

 BEDLAM OF ALMOST THE CENTRAL PART OF NEW YORK CITY." 



hours that I had spent in strenuous 

 traveling in search of specimens of our 

 smaller plants. Our day of trial and 

 pleasure, terminated by the half hour 

 under that restful beech tree, was to me 

 a sample of the long days that these 

 four-footed botanists now enjoyed after 

 spending the greater part of their life, 

 not, like us, in selfish pursuits, but in 

 labor for the welfare of others. To 



that they had for a time spent their 

 vacations at a hospitable farmhouse in 

 that part of Long Ridge, and quite nat- 

 urally had fallen in love with the rug- 

 ged and stony but peaceful hills and 

 pastures, and a year later they had, 

 largely by their own hands and wholly 

 by their own unique designs, built one 

 of the most beautiful bungalows in ex- 

 istence. The swastika or fvlfot dom- 



