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plank, and guy moved it a foot at a time over the fourteen hundred 

 feet traveled to reach its new homesite. With its removal the sun of 

 our twenty year farming day sank beneath the horizon, and man's 

 final estate as described in the line, "we shall soon be fogies," began 

 to cast faintly outlined shadows the day we gave up the farm. 



Farmers Versus Commuters. 



While raising corn for the silo, we were raising roof-trees for 

 the commuter, and in the next hundred pages is a record of how 

 we worked out the farm problem into the villa community, made 

 easier by the fact that the roads in Hillcrest Manor closely articu- 

 lated with various highways. 



