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home, and surely it is as stupid as it is wrong to neglect 

 some of the simplest and yet most effectual means of secur- 

 ing this crown of earthly life. A home is the product of 

 many and varied causes, but I have yet to see the man who 

 will deny that delicious small fruits for eight months of the 

 year, and the richer pleasure even of cultivating and gather- 

 ing them, may become one of the chief contributions to this 

 result. I use the words " eight months " advisedly, for even 

 now, January 29, we are enjoying grapes that were buried 

 in the ground last October. I suppose my children are 

 very material and unlike the good little people who do not 

 live long, but they place a vWiite mark against the days on 

 which v/e unearth a jar of grapes. 



