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would cover the "seats" and make a natural floor for the 

 stage. More bushes could be easily planted in an ap- 

 parently careless fashion to conceal dressing rooms, and 

 the long vistas through the trees with the floating clouds 

 overhead would provide ample amusement for the audi- 

 ence even when the stage was empty. If the practical- 

 minded person should assert that possibly the audience 

 might be sufficiently diverted by the attentions of the 

 ubiquitous mosquito, I should inform them of the vir- 

 tues of sulphate of copper, which destroys the larvae and 

 turns the water a glorious blue. Of course, this pool 

 could be drained if desired. It is only a question of 

 putting in pipes through the hill to the brook about 600 

 feet distant. Why could n't the hole for the pipes be 

 made with a big augur so as to disturb but slightly the 

 trees and shrubs? We have no rocks in that vicinity. 

 In dreams all things are possible. 



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