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|HEN one has nearly half a mile 

 of boundary to define around 

 his four-acre lot, the question 

 arises how it can be inclosed 

 with the least expense and trouble, and in 

 such a way as not to disfigure the grounds. 

 With this problem we had now to deal. 



The front upon the main street, thanks 

 to the sociable fashion of our day, it would 

 be quite proper to leave open, with only 

 such screen of shrubs and trees as we 

 should decide upon when the house was 

 built, and the lawn properly graded. Part 

 of it was already well hedged in with an- 

 cient bushes, which straggled about where 

 the old house stood, in most admired dis- 

 order. But all along Winter Street, as the 

 road behind us is somewhat ambitiously 

 designated, the fence was tumbling down, 

 and the whole garden spot lay uncomfort- 

 ably open to view, as well as to the cold 

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