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a magnificent chance to use them on that knoll of 

 yours that you are going to restore ! " 



As he was speaking I thought Bart paid very scant 

 attention, but following his pointing finger I at once saw 

 what had absorbed him. On the opposite side of the 

 river, extending into the brush lots, was a knoll the size 

 and counterpart of ours, even in the way that it lay by 

 the compass, only this was untouched, as nature planned 

 it, and the model for our restoration. 



"Do you clear the land as far back as this?" Bart 

 asked of The Man, eagerly. 



"Yes, not for the sake of the land, but for the 

 boulders and loose rock on those ledges; all the rock 

 hereabout will be little enough for our masonry 1" 



"Then," said Bart, "I'm going to transplant the 

 growth on this knoll, root and branch, herb and shrub, 

 moss and fern, to our own, if it takes me until Christ- 

 mas ! It isn't often that a man finds an illustrated plan 

 with all the materials for carrying it out under his hand 

 for merely the taking. There are enough young hem- 

 locks up there to windbreak our whole garden. The 

 thing I'm not sure about is just when it will do to begin 

 the transplanting. Meanwhile I'll make a list of the 

 plants we know that we can add to as others develop and 

 blossom." 



