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CHAPTER Y. 
MAKING AN ARBOUR. 
There are so many ways of making a rustic 
summer-house, or arbour, that I hardly know 
which to describe the first. Tall green boughs, 
stuck in and bent together, make a nice gipsy- 
tent for a birthday feast ; and that is the first 
arbour that I can remember helping to construct. 
Tall willow-sticks, bound over, and covered with 
climbing plants, are again very pretty. Yew- 
trees, trained out over a rough wooden frame, 
make a perfect shelter from the heaviest shower, 
and a delightfully thick and close-growing wall 
of green. Living shrubs, interlaced, make also 
roofs and walls ; a few stout posts being ample 
for keeping them in their places. And, lastly, 
a rough trellis-work of sticks crossed and re- 
crossed, and overgrown with flowers and with 
Ivy, makes a perfect picture of a summer-bower. 
I like the latter plan so very much the best, 
that it is the one that I will now describe, for I 
