OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



end coming swift. But a good, stanch tree 

 trunk, cut in its best season (late autumn), is 

 a very tolerable sort of God's work, and, 



seems to me, can be put to very picturesque 

 uses. I don't think the curate's porch is a 

 bad one; as a hint for better ones, I think it 

 is specially good. 



Upon the question of the use of right mate- 

 rial for rustic work, there is very much to be 

 said; here, I have only space for a suggestion 

 or two. There are some trees which hold their 

 bark wonderfully well; of such is the sassa- 

 fras, which, after its tenth year, takes on a 

 picturesque roughness and a rhinoceros-like 



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