A Brick House with a Past 



and the lanterns that once lighted the 

 farmer and his men to the early morn- 

 ing work gleam no more in the dark- 

 ness that precedes the tardy winter 

 dawn. Gone also is the big frame 

 barn with its warm stone basement 

 where the cattle were housed from the 

 cold and storms. Gone are the stalls 

 where the farm teams stood to their 

 corn and oats, and rested from hard 

 labor at the plough. Gone the great 

 floor where the implements of a thrifty 

 husbandry were safely sheltered. 

 Gone the great loft where the hay 

 was snugly stowed, and ambitious 

 hens once made their nests. 



Where all this once was you will 

 now see a handsome terrace and a 

 broad flight of steps banked high with 

 flowers and shrubbery. What was a 

 typical barnyard is now a lawn, with 

 a double line of maples down a graveled 

 walk; and, chief change of all, in the 

 very centre of an orchard that was 

 doomed a great Colonial mansion 



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