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A DAY’S HARD WORK 
on the triangle, they will give the Six Spruces a 
very gay look.” 
We then began to think where we should plant 
the shrubs, and this led to my getting a pad and 
pencil and drawing a small plan of the triangle, the 
paths between It and the veranda, and the circle 
In front of the house. 
It was easy enough to dispose of the yellow bell, 
for we both thought It should go near the one which 
stood by the corner of the west veranda. The 
old-fashioned syringa I wished to plant just outside 
the dining-room window. I remembered the sweet 
scent of Its waxen flowers, and thought In that posi- 
tion It would be near to us. The hydrangeas were 
more difficult to decide about, but we concluded to 
put them at the bottom of the circle, slightly follow- 
ing its curve. They were even now tall shrubs. 
Joseph thought one of the spireas would look 
pretty between the south veranda steps and the 
wall, and we marked a place for It there on the 
plan. The other we planted by the long drive bor- 
dered by spruces that leads out of the front gate. 
The smoke-bush we placed rather near the house 
on the side where the triangle Is bordered by the 
wood. Only the Deutzia and the red-twigged dog- 
wood then remained, and, as neither of us knew 
how they looked In bloom, we left their placing to 
Timothy. 
When once Little Joseph begins a thing. It Is 
very difficult for him to leave before It is finished. 
