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for enough to build a bungalow or two do so to enliven the prop- 

 erty, but go slowly and let the contracts, for your mind must be on 

 your business in town. You will have enough enthusiasts over Sun- 

 day to develop a congenial neighborly neighborhood. 



With these lines ends the writer's partial record of the twin 

 hobbies of country living and housebuilding, which for a quarter of a 

 century took the place of other amusements, but the lure of the 

 lumber pile and the sound of saw and hammer, the call of the land, 

 as seen and heard in rustling tree-top, silver melodies from copse and 

 woodland, lowing herd, ripening harvest, swirl of bloom, will not 

 down. Love of country life with its endless ramifications under- 

 lying all realms in still in the blood, and we shall again sometime 

 enjoy to the uttermost a real possession of the wild, man's rightful 

 heritage. 



