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CHAPTER I. 



DECORATING WITH NATURAL OBJECTS. 



Very many things about us can be utilized for orna- 

 mental purposes. Nature provides an inexhaustible 



BIRD NEST BRACKET. 



amount of material, and artistic taste can devise, and 

 skillful fingers fashion, a thousand-and-one designs. 



Trees contribute their bark, twigs, leaves, and seed ves- 

 sels ; meadows, their ripe grasses and dry flowers ; rocks, 



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