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The pergola being on a side hill is 

 stepped and the effect is very pleasing. 

 The horizontal lengthwise members 

 are not perfectly level but incline 

 slightly with the hill which removes 

 the effect that some stepped pergolas 

 have of seeming to be falling towards 



the hill. 



The esplanade with its classic balus- 

 trade overlooks the scroll flower bed 

 and von will note that its every turn 

 is a graceful curve. There was a place 

 for it and it tits that place. The sun 



always out. We will pull it and enter. 

 If it is at night when some one is hav- 

 ing a birthday party you may hear an 

 adaptation of an old song: 



O then its Come Come Come Come 

 Come to the cabin in the wild wood, 



Come to the cabin in the glen, 



No spot is so clear in old Stamford, 



As the little log cabin in the dale. 



The hearth is a single stone about 

 nine feet by nine feet, the half of a 

 boulder solit in twain by the glacial 



EVEN "SCOTTY THE THIRD' 



IS PERFECTLY CONTENTED WIT 

 ROUN DINGS. 



II THE BEAUTIFUL SUR- 



dial with its golden gnomon tells the 

 time on a sunny day. 



In the valley below the flower gar- 

 den just beyond what is shown in the 

 picture is the vegetable garden. Here 

 an enormous ellipse makes a path for 

 all sides and corners of the garden. Let 

 us walk down through the flower gar- 

 den past the garage and through one 

 side of this ellipse and across a flat 

 space where at one time we had our 

 tennis court to the bungalow which 

 we call The Reservation. A genuine 

 log cabin nestling between two pro- 

 tecting maples. The latch string is 



forces in some far distant geological 

 period. Rustic furniture and the log 

 sides make you think that in reality 

 you are in the wilds of some distant 

 wood. We have had many delightful 

 times around this fire place, and many 

 a good meal has been cooked in it. 

 Your name should be in the guest 

 book. 



The lesson we seek to impress is: — 

 think interesting thoughts, work with 

 an object in view ; the natural sequence 

 of events proclaim that by surrounding 

 Yourself with natural beauty makes 

 happiness, not only now but at every 



