OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



fresh water ad libitum; at night, a warm pail- 

 ful of drink, into which a quart of coarsely 

 ground buckwheat meal shall have been 

 stirred, and another lock of sweet hay in way 

 of nightcap. 



"With such food, and an occasional comb- 

 ing, at the hands of Patrick, (all the better if 

 daily,) I think you may count upon such 

 golden returns of cream as will bring back 

 a taste of the grassy spring-time." 



Thus much for Lackland's Pig and Cow. 



ON GATEWAYS 



I HAVE often wondered why the professional 

 writers on landscape gardening have so little 

 to say of gateways. Among the more pre- 

 tentious authors of this class I find sketches 

 of gate-lodges, very charming in their details, 

 many of them; but I find little or no mention 

 of those modest gates which must hang at 

 every man's door-yard— those unpretending 

 swinging barriers, by which every country 

 house-holder is shut off from the world, and 

 by which he is joined to the world. They 

 may be made to give a good deal of expres- 



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