OUR COUNTRY LIFE 



garden, and how effective their splendid foliage on 

 the edges of protected bays in the larger lakes! 



Another of our favorite rides is to a neighboring 

 college famous for its Indian mounds. Fifteen of 

 these enrich its campus, some of which have been ex- 

 plored; but as investigations have now been forbidden, 

 those yet unviolated must exercise a curious fascina- 

 tion upon the imaginative student. This was a part 

 of the country well populated by the first Americans, 

 and in the Museum here is many a trophy of their life 

 and customs. 



The distance, thirty-three miles over a good road, 

 and the excellent inn for luncheon, make this an at- 

 tractive excursion at almost any time of year; but in 

 September, when the second growth of sweet clover 

 perfumes the highway and an occasional sumach glows 

 brilliant in the sunshine; when not only the late golden- 

 rods are in bloom, but dainty asters, purple, lavender, 

 and white, nod graciously from hill and hollow; when 

 the hazel and dogwood are turning to crimson, and in 

 the swamps the sneezeweed and coreopsis vie with each 



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