No. 4.] COUNTRY ROADS— APPENDIX. 



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The sequel — after a couple of freezing and thawing 

 winters — is not so pleasant. 



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The too common ' ' remedy " for the conditions above is to 

 dump in more stone and dig out the gutters to throw on top. 

 After awhile the stones will begin to ooze out with the mud 

 of the gutters, and by a foolish public they can be used over 

 and again. 



Road scrapers would be more nearly adorable if once in 

 awhile the men who run them did not destroy better foot- 

 paths than they make, and if they were not so fond of their 

 scraping that they can't bear to leave a stretch of sandy road 

 untouched, while they know well that flushing ruts with 

 worn-out stuff, just lit for hens to dust in, only makes the 

 poor-enough wheeling heavier. As we have seen three 

 generations of the same family of road-menders, doing these 

 naughty things, we put in a cartoon for their edification : — 







