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OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



and compact. One only has lost its capping boulder, 

 which certain errant hoys could not resist the temp- 

 tation to tumble off, that they might watch its roll 

 down a pretty declivity of a hundred rods, or more. 

 I wish I had no more grievous charges to bring 

 against errant boys. 



For the entrance to the drive-way, supposing that 

 my friend Lackland has plenty of cedar at hand, I 

 give another design : 



And I have this much to say in favor of it, that a 

 similar one was erected at Edgewood eleven years 

 since, and its gates have swung back and forth a 

 dozen times a day, without, as yet, a single hammer's 

 stroke in way of repair. 



