ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



hinted, and that grotesqueness which is com- 

 passed by scores of crooked Hmbs and knots 

 wrought into labyrinthine patterns, which puz- 



zle the eye, more than they please. All crooked 

 things are not necessarily charming, and the 

 better kind of homeliness is measured by 

 something besides mere roughness. 



Lastly, there is your hospitable gate, with 

 its little rooflet stretched over it, as if to invite 

 a stranger loiterer to partake at his will of 

 that much of the hospitalities of the home. 

 Even the passing beggar gathers his tattered 

 garments under it in a sudden shower and 

 blesses the shelter. And I introduce upon the 

 next page a very homely specimen of this class 

 of gates, which I remember was to be seen 



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