OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



from out these magic boxes! Such lace 

 wrappers such frilled and furbelowed 

 morning gowns such stylish driving cos- 

 tumes such flowing tea-gowns such 

 spangled and embroidered dinner dresses! 

 It got to be quite exciting, each day, to see 

 what was coming next, and to note the 

 artistic crescendo which was consistently 

 carried through, from breakfast till supper, 

 in those costumes which, like the verses 

 of a poem, led from one to the other in 

 sesthetic progression. 



In the meantime I clung to my gingham 

 skirt and shade hat, and we jeered scorn- 

 fully at each other's clothes, and enjoyed 

 each other immensely. When she came 

 out on to the lawn I would fall to digging 

 furiously and offer her a spade, upon which 

 she would walk off majestically, and pres- 

 ently reappear in another and still more 

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