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Old Time Gardens 
pleasing ? A well-sweep is of course picturesque, 
with its long swinging pole, and you seem to feel 
the refreshment and purity of the water when you 
see it brought up from such a distance ; and an old 
Covered Well at Home of Bishop Berkeley, Whitehall, Rhode Island. 
roofed well with bucket, such as this one still in use 
at Bishop Berkeley’s Rhode Island home is ever a 
homelike and companionable object. But a pump 
is really an awkward-looking piece of mechanism, 
and hasn’t a vestige of beauty in its lines; yet it has 
something satisfying about it ; it may be its do- 
