46 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



far as I can see will stand for two thousand years more. It 

 gives one some little idea of the permanence of that country. 



And just to show that everything in that country is not as 

 bright and beautiful as some of the photographs, I have also a 

 few pictures of the back yards, some of which look just as 

 they do in this country and make one feel as though he was 

 entirely at home. 



A pleasant rural church of this kind is a common scene in 

 England and reminds me that our country churches in New 

 England are, some of them, beautiful, but very few of them 

 are as permanent as this, and some of them, in fact, are very 

 squalid and unsatisfactory. It happens that this particular 

 church is like a good many of our New England country 

 churches, it is entirely deserted except by these good old friends 

 in the foreground who can't get away. A village farmhouse in 

 the same neighborhood is shown here, showing something of the 

 type of rural architecture which is quite familiar, especially on 

 the hills of Gloucester. This is a substantial school building in 

 a little village in Gloucester, showing two or three little items 

 of interest, the closeness and narrowness of the streets, the 

 sharp corners that are turned, the way in which all the little 

 corners of land are used for buildings, and the fine and clean 

 and substantial character of the public buildings themselves. 

 Those people have been there, as I say, for two thousand years 

 and they expect to stay two thousand more, and so they are 

 willing to have things fixed up as they ought to be. 



Here we are again back on the continent, for with the col- 

 lection of these slides around various paragraphic topics, I 

 have looked to the topics rather than to the particular localities 

 in arranging the slides, and am therefore keeping you jumping 

 about from one place to another; but I hope that will not con- 

 fuse you or cause you any seasickness or discomfort. We can 

 cross the channel in this way without any seasickness, though 

 some people find it difficult to get across in fact without some 

 trouble. We are now in southern Germany, in a very pleasant,, 

 beautiful, private garden in the early spring with the magnolias 

 in blossom. The same girls stand for us here in this photo- 

 graph, showing the same magnolia tree, and a very attractive 

 view down the main street of the garden. You see the pretty 



