paid for it, but, well or badly, she would be invited to 

 come again and try it over. No one feels a stranger or ill 

 at ease in the Roycroft. 



I watched Mr. Hubbard walk along the streets and saw the 

 children meet him. They had a cheery word for him, they 

 all smiled and talked to him. They all received a kind 

 word from him and they were all happy, the children be- 

 cause they met him and he spoke to them ; he, because 

 they were happy. 



Roycroft is no place for the artificial man, and, by the 

 way, I rather guess that in this artificial age the man who 

 acts naturally is regarded as insane. The chap with the 

 clocked stockings that ticks loud enough to be heard 

 upstairs in the garret, and pulls his trousers up to show 

 them off, should pass on to Buffalo, and not stop off at 

 East Aurora. 



When you go there, take a second suit of clothes along. 

 Roycroft is a stylish place, it has a style of its own, it is 

 a fashionable place, it has a fashion of going out to the 

 fields among the buttercups and daisies, out in the woods 

 among the ferns, the shrubs and shades. 

 If you have a suit that will stand the wear and tear of 

 out-door life, take it with you along with "your best suit 

 of clothes," for you will wear it more than the other. You 

 may wear what you like so long as it is respectable. No 

 one pays attention to what you wear, but they do heed 

 what you say, so study up and try to talk well before go- 

 ing there, or else cultivate that becoming silence which is 

 a benediction to heal the blows of sound. 

 "What did I do?" Oh, I have been to so many places, 

 have been written up and down so much that no one 

 minds me now. 



In the summer the habit grows on you, and all who visit 

 Roycroft, get out early in the fields and woods. I met 

 a singular character there named Freeland. He did n't 

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