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Old Time Gardens 



pleasi-ng ? A well-sweep is of course picturesque, 

 with its long swinging pole, and you seem to feel 

 the refreshment and purity of the water when you 

 see it brought up from such a distance ; and an old 



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Covered Well at Home of Bishop Berkeley, Whitehall, Rhode Island. 



roofed well with bucket, such as this one still in use 

 at Bishop Berkeley's Rhode Island home is ever a 

 homelike and companionable object. But a pump 

 is really an awkward-looking piece of mechanism, 

 and hasn't a vestige of beauty in its lines; yet it has 

 something satisfying about it ; it may be its do- 



