appelated home. Their vindows op«i, ererj one of tlim, to the fair 

 prospect of meadow or oroliard, a viading road, a friendly hollow fringed 

 with trees, an «nd«lating ralley edged with gentle hills — foothills of 

 the Berkshiree — behind which the round svm comes up in the morning and 

 slips away at dask. 



Toa shottld request the room a bore the dining room if you are 

 of the stuff that rejoices in a suariee. The sun (I am told) ridee over 

 the eastern hills in that still hour that follows the passing of night, 

 turns the wtodows of our swtparlor to gold, turns the Croton streams to 

 silTer, floods the orchard with dancing lights and provokes the s<^s of 

 orioles, thrushes, songsparrows, wrens, bluebirds, cedar waxwii^s and all 

 the rest. 



If you select a room at the opposite comer of the house, you 

 will hare the less stem joy of watching the sunset. To« will look be- 

 yoffld the kifeoll, the oat field, the fork of the roads where the little 

 churches stajad, and up the ralley now drawing to itself eTeaing shadows. 

 Tou will see the sun hastening into the goldMi light that deepms along 

 the ridge of purple hills. Perhaps you will see high-piled nimbus 

 clouds, black below, silrer-edged, bringing up nature's ertillery boob 

 to be heard booming through the ralleys. More often you will see fleecy 

 cumuli slowly changing their places sud bowing silsBtly to their partners 

 as in an aerial minuet. Perhaps you will see only thin films of cloud 

 flaag carelessly across the sky as if forgotten. They are like frag» 

 meats of rainbow, as the B\m. falls, and giwe out prismatic colors, then 

 fade to rose-pink and dull gray as the shadows darken. 



When you have made ready for supper — in a comfortable, in- 

 fojnsal fashion — your hostess will lead you to your place at the table. 

 The ceilings of the lower rooms Bre twelve feet high. The windows, 

 freshly curtained, are high in proportion. If it is midsummer, you need 

 no other light than that which comes, mellowed by tall maples aad spruces. 



