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that I can make, remain cost free, painting excepted, for twenty 

 years ; at the end of which term, independently of the increase 

 of fruit, and of the grateful shade 

 and pleasing promenade that they 

 will afford, they will be found 

 cheaper than walks made of gi'avel, 

 in the same way that a slated roof 

 is found cheaper, in the long run, 

 than one thatched, like a corn- 

 stack, with straw and ropes every 

 year. Besides the difference in 

 daily comfort and annual expendi- 

 ture in walks paved with beautiful 

 blue slab slate, at all seasons clean, 

 and ready to be traversed by the foot 

 or the wheelbarrow, with equal im- 

 punity in frost or in thaw, there 

 will be no more danger of des- 

 sert strawberries or garnishing 

 parsley being mingled with the coal 



