SWAYING TREE TOPS 



One wonders what determined the 

 site of the average farmhouse. Per- 

 haps a grove of trees explains the 

 location of one or two. Perhaps a 

 hill from which a view can he secured 

 tells the reason for the situation of 

 two or three more, but of all the rest 

 nothing apparent indicates their 

 builder's reason for putting them 

 where they are. 



The girl with the violets says she 

 cannot understand why that brick 

 house should have been placed on the 

 south side of the road, in a treeless 

 field, while just across the road is a 

 grove of trees which would have 

 made such a cool retreat in summer 

 and given unlimited opportunity for 

 landscape gardening effects. Then 

 I remark that I cannot see why those 



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