A Brick House with a Past 



las come over the scene since one day, 

 low more than twenty years ago, a 

 )arty of city business men pulled up 

 it the old house to look over the farm, 

 ►f which it was the heart, with a view 

 owards purchasing. 



It seems an ordained part of old 

 Dame Nature's general scheme to 

 >bliterate as soon as possible all traces 

 >f departed activities. Streets and 

 ails, no matter what their importance 

 IS commercial arteries, once abandoned 

 ire soon claimed by grasses and other 

 )lants appointed for such tasks. The 

 ipparently indestructible yields at 

 ast to the inexorable levers and ful- 

 :rums with which old Father Time is 

 o generously provided. And so we 

 ind that year by year the vines and 

 ;rees and shrubbery are gripping 

 lighter and tighter in their sheltering 

 ;mbrace these old brick walls. It is, 

 n truth, now so well protected from 

 ;he vulgar public gaze that unless you 

 mow just where it stands you will 



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