OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



Beyond the spring, the path leads on to where great 

 rocks form a right-angled seat. Here is the squirrels' 

 rendezvous, for ''cups and saucers," as we used to call 

 them, telltale remnants of their acorn feast, are ever to 

 be found here. 



When we first began to make our paths through- 

 out the woods, we unconsciously adopted the "natural 

 method," winding in and out among the trees, so that 

 one was constantly being surprised by a new point 

 of view; but after visiting the more formal forests of 

 France and Italy we began to appreciate the beauty 

 of long vistas and narrow pathways between high green 

 walls. Of course we could not have the ilex hedges 

 or clipped yews, nor would either be desirable in our 

 kind of a country place; but we became curious as to 

 what effect we could produce with a long straight 

 pathway through our woods. 



Charmed by any new suggestion, the Constant Im- 

 prover no sooner conceived than he put his plan into 

 execution. From the great rock seat extending 

 straight as an arrow for over seven hundred feet, a 



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