OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



the Indian relics, carried them swiftly to the eastward, 

 and distributed them with a liberal hand among his 

 many friends. So we accepted the metatas, these tokens 

 of a bygone civilization, as precious treasures and put 

 them at once to practical use. The Indian woman 

 busily preparing her midday meal little imagined that 

 she was carving bird-baths for a Wisconsin wood 

 land some thousands of miles away; but I am sure that 

 she would approve their present use, half sunk in the 

 ground and filled with clear water. 



After ten years of country life what have we ac 

 complished? 



From a wild woodland we have evolved a house 

 with attendant garage and lodge; a water system, green 

 house, and woodshed; vegetable, fruit, and flower 

 gardens of various kinds; a lawn and roads and paths 

 disturbing as little as possible the native forest. This 

 is the material result. 



Unconsciously we have made for ourselves an ab 

 sorbing interest, an endless source of entertainment, 

 and the most important of all an ever-ready refuge 



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