CHAPTER XVI. 

 CONCLUSION. 



T \ 7"E have not sought to do everything at once; we try not to 

 be impatient for results. For example, it took us nearly 

 three years to learn a fully satisfactory way to put the name of 

 the place at the entrance ! It sounds simple enough, but . 

 On the highroad outside the almost invisible wire fence, we had 

 planted a long thicket of underbrush from the woods within, while 

 about the curving stone arms of the gateway we put masses of wild 

 roses and bitter-sweet. In the split boulder which capped the 

 gate-post we decided to carve the name of the place. 



The Friendly Architect sketched roughly the letters, and the 

 stone-cutter, who had had experience in the little local burving- 

 ground, came from the village armed with hammer, drills, and 

 emery stone, and began making round holes three-eighths of an inch 

 in diameter, three-fourths of an inch deep, and one-eighth of an 

 inch apart, up and down the penciled lines. It was not rapid work : 

 the granite seemed particularly impenetrable, and the drills would 

 get dull after every few strokes; but at the end of many days the 



holes all beautifully round were completed. 



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