OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



the Indian relics, carried diem swiftly to the eastward, 

 and distributed them with a liberal hand among his 

 many friends. So we accepted the metatas, these tokens 

 of a bygone civilization, as precious treasures and put 

 them at once to practical use. The Indian woman 

 busily preparing her midday meal little imagined that 

 she was carving bird-baths for a Wisconsin wood- 

 land some thousands of miles away; but I am sure that 

 she would approve their present use, half sunk in the 

 ground and filled with clear water. 



After ten years of country life what have we ac- 

 complished? 



From a wild woodland we have evolved a house 

 with attendant garage and lodge ; a water system, green- 

 house, and woodshed; vegetable, fruit, and flower 

 gardens of various kinds; a lawn and roads and paths 

 disturbing as little as possible the native forest. This 

 is the material result. 



Unconsciously we have made for ourselves an ab- 

 sorbing interest, an endless source of entertainment, 

 and — the most important of all — an ever-ready refuge 



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