6 MT VINEYAED. 



if occasional glimpses of Lakeview and its surroundings 

 are revealed. ' But what are the benefits to be attained ? ' 

 you ask. I know not, surely ; they may be few or many ; 

 but are there none who can be guided by your experience 

 to a success equal to your own ? As I write these lines, 

 and call to mind your employment and your home, I al- 

 most wish I too had laid aside the rule and stick in the 

 earlier years, and taken up the knife and spade. And 

 even the question comes, ' Is it now too late ? ' Perhaps 

 your ' record,' when it reaches me, will afford an answer." 

 So I pondered the suggestion which my friend had 

 made ; and acted upon it when the long winter evenings 

 had come. , 



