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HOW TO MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE 



PRINCETON TIGER IN THE HOME CIRCLE. 



if a funeral cortege crosses the lawn it emphasizes an unpleasant 

 division of ownership. This problem was solved in one of our prop- 

 erties by purchasing a lot and monument in the town cemetery, 

 removing the bodies thereto, obtaining possession of the land, and can- 

 celing all rights of way by quitclaim deeds from the heirs. The 

 only graveyards on the farm were in Sleepy Hollow Valley, located 

 not to contaminate the water supply. There was the last home of 

 the horses that served us so faithfully, and of Bobbie and his suc- 

 cessors in our affections. The willow we planted over the grave of 

 Bobbie Burns is to-day a lofty tree. 



The horses never had other masters, but each had pasturage 

 in old age, a warm corner in barn and paddock, and a grass-grown 

 grave in the valley at life's end. There were Don, Dan, Bess, 

 Topsy, Victor, faithful Peggoty and snow-white, speed-crazed 

 Lightning, Chester, Frisky, and a score of others, including Alice, the 

 daughter of renowned Amy, that never-outdistanced road mare whom 

 we brought from Boston only to die within the week. Tragedy and 

 pathos were often boon companions. 



Our Horse Boarders. 



One source of income was horse boarders. In box stall, paddock 

 or pasture we always had eight or ten both summer and winter, a 

 big help in actual cash toward the farm expenses. 



