OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



afternoon and, sinking into a comfortable chair on 

 deck, abandons himself to the sensuous enjoyment of 

 floating in the clean coolness to his destination. If 

 rainy, the cabin is commodious and large-windowed; 

 here in the fall a cup of tea is often offered to the 

 passenger, an attention much appreciated by the 

 feminine guest. On hot moonlight nights it is a fa- 

 vorite custom to have supper on board, as the yacht 

 drifts lazily over the still waters, making an ideal finish 

 to a Sunday in the country. 



Although most of our time is spent in our beloved 

 woods and gardens, it is the lake after all which brought 

 us to this spot, and we are never oblivious of its love- 

 liness. In fact one of our chief problems was how 

 to treat our shore in such a way as not only 

 to preserve but to enhance its natural beauty. We 

 have about sixteen hundred feet on the water, as the 

 island is long and narrow; on account of changing the 

 main line of the shore for about three hundred feet to 

 conform with the line of the house, we had to begin 

 here at the very foundation of things and build 



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