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easy enough to make just lath, and four posts to 

 keep it from upsetting ; the Herr Papa will send the 

 carpenter, and we shall have it all done while the 

 little lady is away." 



Then he returned to his figuring. "She is not 

 more than four feet high. If I make the little house 

 six feet, that should give plenty of room the child 

 will not grow that much more this summer ; and if I 

 make the door four and a half feet, that should be 

 right. It is well to keep out the big people. Then I 

 make the two doorways, one on each side, two feet 

 wide ; it will so look more like the little arbor and 

 less like the box. Yes. 



"That carpenter-man, that William, shall put in 

 the upright posts. Then we shall have the four pieces 

 to join them at the top ; they should be 2 x4. That is 

 the framework. Then we shall put on the laths to 

 make a lattice. We might make latticed sides and 

 then put them up, so that the little house may be 

 pulled down but not demolished. Yes ! " He paused 

 in his soliloquizing, and looked with pride at the 

 rough sketch the summer-house to be. " It may not 

 add to the landscape effect, but it will make for com- 

 fort, and that is also something in a garden. If I could 

 but make a tiny chalet ! But to put it in an American 



