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same pattern, and the other enclosures never 

 having boasted anything finer than 'post and 

 rail' fixtures, with a half-wall to prop them 

 upon some of the exterior lines. The enclo- 

 sure (d) is what the previous owner called 

 his back yard ; it was traversed, as you see, by 

 a cart-path leading straight to the barn court, 

 and was encumbered with a prodigious array 

 of old wood, brush heaps, a broken cart or 

 two, and one of the most luxurious thickets 

 of burdock and stramonium which I ever re- 

 member to have seen. He (former owner) 

 tells me stramonium is good for 'biles.' Is it? 

 "The buildings around the little enclosure 

 marked (g) will explain themselves— a barn, 

 a hog-pen, a cow-shed— all in most dilapi- 



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