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:asteful arrangement of the garage and other outbuildings. 



and simplicity of nature, and he has 

 wonderfully succeeded in developing 

 this valley farm, which lies as in the 

 hollow of a cup, rising on almost every 

 side to tree crowned hills, and offer- 

 ing across the valley in either direc- 

 tion a lovely view of ancient trees and 

 rugged hillsides. What is more peace- 

 ful and more pleasingly suggestive of 

 the fostering care of man than a little 

 clearing at the edge of the woods, 

 where the landscape still remains un- 



changed, and as untamed as when na- 

 ture first planted the germs and direct- 

 ed the graceful growths as she would? 

 I recently met an aged resident of the 

 farm who rejoiced in his opportunity to 

 tell a stranger how his grandfather and 

 his men and a yoke of oxen went out 

 before sunrise and worked until after 

 dark to make the stone walls that bor- 

 der these fields. A certain period of 

 our American history might well be 

 called the stone wall era, and my aged 



AX ATTRACTIVE APPROACH to the garage. 



