O U R COUNTRY H O M E 



What a happy summer we spent in the tiny cottage ! To awaken 

 each morning with that indistinct realization of some pleasant hap- 

 pening, and to feel sure that more pleasant and unthought-of experi- 

 ences were before one, preparing the way for that dreamless slumber 

 at night into which the out-of-door worker so deliciously sinks. 



THK LITTLE COTTAGE 



Curiously marked maps began to appear, with numbers dotted 

 all over them. Long lists of plants and shrubs all carefully dis- 

 guised, even the most familiar, under their interminable Latin 

 names, accompanied them. Our evening's occupation, and often 

 that of our daylight hours too, lay in deciphering these oddly-shaped 



contours and repeating the names of the shrubs which were to go in 



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