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somewhat with some of the most picturesque objects 

 in the distance. I advised a slight excavation of a 

 portion of the marsh so as to show a little lakelet, 

 over whose farther arm a rustic bridge might be 

 thrown the bridge serving as a portion of the bar- 

 rier between the area of plaisance ground around the 

 pond and the pasture beyond. By this device and 

 adroit disposition of shrubbery, the whole area south 

 of the high-road would appear from the windows of 

 the mansion to constitute but one enclosure, within 

 which the pet Alderneys might be seen cropping the 

 herbage, or cooling themselves in the pool beyond 

 the bridge. 



Of course such disposition of the matter (which 

 I have tried to illustrate in the drawing) commended 



itself most warmly to Mrs. Urban and to the Misses 



Urbans. Nor did the paterfamilias greatly object. 



To add still more to the picturesqueness of this 



