WATER IN THE GARDEN 



have their duplicates, for summer use, at least; 

 for we have to admit that in winter a water 

 garden is a dreary place, for usually it is neces- 

 sary to draw off the contents of the pool in order 

 to prevent the swelling volume of the ice from 

 cracking the cement. So here is the shadowing 

 forth of a dream, but you are to pretend that it 

 Is midsummer when you study it : 



Fig. 27. 



To use an inconsistency, this is a lazy man's 

 resting-place, (lazy men having no occasion to 

 rest, merely idle,) and you are to Imagine that 

 It is surrounded by vine-covered walls; that as 

 you sit on one of the benches at the near end, 



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