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Old Time Gardens 



pleasing ? 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 



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- 



