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be about the premises, I shall expect his carpenter to 

 make such a bugbear of the exuding pitch, and of the 

 impossibility of bringing his square and his gauge 

 into requisition, and (if he goes on) to keep so reso- 

 lutely by a determination to counterfeit, as far as 

 possible, all the mouldings of his joiner work, that he 

 will construct a cumbrous affair, at such great cost 

 of labor, as will disgust my friend Lackland, and at 

 such cost of simplicity as will disgust every tasteful 

 observer. 



What then ? There can be no doubt of the pos- 

 sibility of working this unruly material into tasteful 

 forms, that shaU have practical and economic uses ; 

 but in the ordering of this matter, as in the ordering 

 of a great many others, connected with rural life, if 

 the proprietor can put no zeal into his intention, and 

 has no eye for the charms of homeliness, let him 

 abandon the pursuit. A good fence of white pickets, 

 with gate to match, will keep the pigs out, and the 

 young Lacklands in. 



Village and Country Ho ad-side. 



in VERY Christian dweller, in village or in coun- 

 -* ^ try, owes a duty to his road-side ; which, if he 

 neglects, he relapses horticulturally speaking into 

 heathenism. This dutv is to maintain order and neat- 



