OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



and yet the general effect will be of one admirable 

 building." 



"Will they cost more than an ordinary boathouse?" 

 demanded one cautious neighbor. 



"Not a bit," he was assured. 



"Will they be thoroughly practical, light and dry?" 

 asked another. 



"Perfectly," was the confident reply. 



The idea was certainly original, and the effect on 

 paper very good, and that it would look equally well 

 finished the neighbors believed; but as to the practical 

 working of the plan possibly they felt more dubious. 

 However they rallied loyally to his support in a unan- 

 imous; "Go ahead, then." And the work was be- 

 gun. 



Placed sixty feet back from the shore with three 

 "ways" on which to pull the yachts from the water, 

 these "ways" covered with portable wooden bridges 

 for the shore path, the wide trellised structure 

 of smooth cement blocks presented anything but a 

 conventional appearance. A broad wooden band dis- 



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