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would cover the "seats" and make a natural floor for the 

 stage. More bushes could be easily planted in an ap 

 parently careless fashion to conceal dressing rooms, and 

 the long vistas through the trees with the floating clouds 

 overhead would provide ample amusement for the audi 

 ence even when the stage was empty. If the practical- 

 minded person should assert that possibly the audience 

 might be sufficiently diverted by the attentions of the 

 ubiquitous mosquito, I should inform them of the vir 

 tues of sulphate of copper, which destroys the larvae and 

 turns the water a glorious blue. Of course, this pool 

 could be drained if desired. It is only a question of 

 putting in pipes through the hill to the brook about 600 

 feet distant. Why could n't the hole for the pipes be 

 made with a big augur so as to disturb but slightly the 

 trees and shrubs? We have no rocks in that vicinity. 

 In dreams all things are possible. 



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