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great deal more eager to sell than the one who has 

 opportunities flowing upon him weekly. Above all 

 things, it is imperative that a proprietor who would 

 enjoy to the full a delightful country place, or a well- 

 managed farm, should allow others to enjoy it with 

 him. By which I mean, that his improvements and 

 successes should be in the sight of people, and not in 

 some utterly inaccessible locality, out of view and 

 out of mind. 



To plant charming shrubberies and lay down cap- 

 tivating walks in quarters that no one can reach but 

 by a break-neck scramble over abominable roads, is 

 like making a fine speech to empty benches always 

 an ungrateful thing to do, as many a good man 

 knows. Half the charm of the river-bank places 

 along the Hudson lies in the fact that they, with their 

 surroundings, really form a part of that great water 

 highway of travel gazed upon every summer day 

 by the world that floats downward and upward 

 through the mountain gates of the river, dotting the 

 green hills with lessons which every floating traveller 

 may read massing their showy rhododendrons so 

 that thousands from below and above may see the 

 pink crown of blossoms. The boat, the car, those 

 hundred eyes, do not steal away any home-like pri- 

 vacy ; they equip it rather with a new content the 

 content that comes of seeing others enjoy what we 



