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\vimlo\vs. We will have grass-grown roads leading to it, and wind- 

 ing paths: hut all about us, it shall remain a wilderness. If the 

 great folds of the wild grape fall to the ground, another wild grape 

 shall begin to twine with clinging tendrils over the low bushes, up 

 tin- Npre.iding branches, until it can wave its arras in triumph from 

 the top of the tallest tree. If one of the great oaks die, an acorn 

 shall drop in the ground at its feet; and if we should not sit in its 

 shade, it will be for some one a happv retreat. So can we build 

 for the future and think of the pleasures which others may know; 

 perhaps some reflection may fall upon us and add to our joy in the 

 work which we do. 



This shall be our home and our refuge and a refuge for our 

 friends. Can life ever grow monotonous, or the days bore us, with 

 such wonders unfolding before our newly opened eyes ? To have 

 a new sensation of genuine pleasure when one has passed the for- 

 tieth milestone is something not to be despised, and here was a 

 whole world of new sensations, a daily new discovery to feast upon. 

 To take possession of the sunrises and the starlit nights, to feel the 

 earth full of promise beneath one, to say to each winged creature 

 and trembling being, "You are my brother and my sister, let us 

 enjoy all this together! " - what a heavenly outlook! 



Said a new neighbor to us one day, "I do not want to 

 complete my place this summer, I want something left to keep my 

 husband interested another year." 



" You need not imagine, my dear inexperienced friend, that you 



