A LAND-LOVER AND HIS LAND 



cost him about three thousand dollars 

 a year ; and, further, the expense of a 

 summer cottage by the seashore, or in 

 the mountains, was always around five 

 thousand. Now the family do not care 

 for summer cottages. Even from auto- 

 mobile tours, they are eager to get 

 back to the farm. It is home ; the city 

 apartment, maintained all the year 

 round, is only an abiding place. They 

 are striking root in the soil, and 

 thriving accordingly. Doctors' bills, 

 once very considerable, have shrunk 

 almost out of sight. 



Of the original buildings, only a 

 ramshackle barn and the shell of the 

 farmhouse remain. The house, shorn 

 of its scrolls, newly roofed and painted, 

 furnished with open plumbing, and 

 supplemented with porches, a piazza, 

 and various additions, fits so well into 



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