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a smaller room back for a kitchen, which furnishes ample 

 opportunity for as many to lend a hand as chance to be in 

 camp, for co-operation is specially adapted to such life. 

 Six cosy bedrooms open from these two rooms. There is 

 a broad piazza in front, which serves as an ideal dining- 

 room, from which you seem to have water on three sides, 

 as Breezy Point (it so christened itself one hot summer 

 day) is shaped something like half an &gg. The entire 

 front of the cottage can be opened, and what could look 

 cosier than that roomy room, with a large hanging lamp 

 over a table surrounded by comfortable chairs, the walls 

 bright with shade hats and boating caps, handy pin- 

 cushions, and in fact everything one is likely to want in 

 camp — all so convenient? Under a little table you would 

 find reading enough for the longest season, and in the 

 drawer a "register" which testifies to about seven hun- 

 dred visitors, among them Elder Whitely from the 

 Shaker community we read about in Howells's "Undis- 

 covered Country," who brought with him a lady from 

 Australia, and an Englishman who was interested to 

 examine a mosquito, having never seen one before — 

 happy man ! Hammocks may swing by the dozen, right 

 in front of the cottage ; and just down the slope to the left 

 is a little stable, with an open and a box stall, and a shed 

 for the carriage. If you follow along the shore towards 

 the steps, you will find the boats in a sheltered spot. 



The hospitality of the A. family is unlimited, and the 

 friend who was "counted in" so many times the first sea- 

 son that she felt as if she "belonged" resolved she would 

 have a boat next season that could be shared with the 

 campers ; for you cannot have too many boats. When 



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