146 GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
for the stone foundations ; the expert piping was done by the 
city plumber ; the solid gray slabs of field stone were presented 
by Clark University to its infant sister, the grade school. 
A teacher ^ wrote the following : 
When the mason began his work, he was allowed to put in the founda- 
tion as he thought best, but after that he placed every stroke under the 
THE WORCESTER BIRD FOUNTAIN 
direction of those whose minds held a completed picture of the fountain. 
The mason frankly told us that he thought he should not care to carve 
his name on the fountain as its builder, but he followed our suggestions 
exactly, and after a day’s work the structure was finished. 
The completion of this interesting structure was hailed 
with joy. Especially after the carefully planted wild flowers 
1 Miss Edna Thayer. 
