In Old Tidewater Virginia 9 



hundred and fifty in woods. We keep 

 eleven horses, six cows, a dozen sheep, four 

 bird-dogs, chickens, ducks and turkeys. We 

 have a two-acre garden with greenhouse for 

 winter vegetables, an acre of strawberries, 

 an acre of raspberries and dewberries and 

 two acres in grapes; an old orchard and a 

 young one with all the fruits of the temper- 

 ate climate ; and a mile water front with full 

 riparian rights. 



The Old Dominion steamer has an artistic 

 little pier on the upper end of the lawn, 

 which gives us daily mail and traffic with 

 Old Point and Norfolk and the outside 

 world. There are no railroads in the three 

 counties of Gloucester, Matthews and Mid- 

 dlesex. We live in Gloucester, and around 

 us on the beautiful landlocked arm of the 

 Chesapeake called North River we see from 

 our porch fourteen water-front homes. 

 These three counties are intersected by a 

 network of tide rivers and creeks, like the 



