OUR COUNTRY HOME 



winding paths nor curving beds are permitted. We brought down 

 the old gray lichen-covered fence which for twenty years had 

 bordered the high road, and set it up around the garden, re-hung 

 the squeaky gate, and admired our handiwork. The country people 



looked on askance. What kind of ideas were these ? A nice, new, 

 painted one would have cost no more! 



Over the old fence trailing grape-vines sprawl at their own sweet 

 will, and the Japanese clematis perfumes the air with its snowy 

 sweetness; eglantine, golden glow, and phlox peer through the pick- 

 ets at their lowly neighbors, and on the west the shaded green of the 

 young locust trees makes a screen between the service road and 



the garden. 



80 



