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OUR BACKDOOR NEIGHBORS 



might be desired, but her husband found so 

 much joy in their surroundings that he could 

 not contain it alone. She absorbed some of his 

 enthusiasm and was content. 



There were many wild flowers which the neighbors regarded as weeds. 



About the house there were clumps of elder- 

 berries, where the birds came to feed in the hot 

 days of August, and mulberries where they 

 were content to dine in cherry time. There 

 were many wild flowers, such as asters and 

 goldenrod, crownbeard and rudbeckia, which 



