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himself what manner of creatures they were 

 who had such eccentric ways. " Yes, I know ; 

 you come here for rest ; everybody in the 

 6 Row ' comes here for rest." He struggled to 

 be polite, but he could n't keep the sneer out of 

 his voice. He himself always got up at four 

 o'clock he went on, in the slow drawling 

 way in which an island fisherman comes to 

 talk. He should feel that he had wasted half 

 the morning if he lay till eight o'clock. 



" The Snuggery" seemed the obvious name 

 for this cozy little home of independence and 

 rest, and that it was always to me, though it 

 had a far more pretentious title. 



The views from my two doors open all 

 the time, weather permitting had each its 

 own charm. One looked into the heart of 

 the spruce woods, the other offered a stretch 

 of sea and sky framed in by two tall spruces. 

 I could look at either by a turn of the head, 

 but the woods with the woods-dwellers was 

 most attractive. My chair was nearest that 

 door, and when either picture must be shut 

 out, it was the sea which was sacrificed. 



The trees of this green paradise were of 

 Nature's inimitable grouping, in appearance 



