August, iqi 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
115 
autos, and do now. But I don't see any 
way around your figures. If an expert 
can’t pluck holes in them, I’ll bring my 
wife out to see this place Monday and —- 
and - ” 
“We’d better start now if we are to 
catch the 3:24 back to the city,” suggested 
Mr. Swift, slowly. 
“Oh, there’s all afternoon,” said Mr. 
Spence. “Come back and show me that 
garden again and let me look at the light¬ 
ing plant. I don’t exactly understand how 
you could put an economical electric light¬ 
ing plant in here. You said you could ex¬ 
plain that, if I was interested!” 
Joyfully, but outwardly calm, Mr. Swift 
led the way. And he had the good sense 
not to say “automobile” again. For he 
knew Mr. Spence worked with figures 
and he knew his own figures would sup¬ 
plement those already given. He knew 
that the sale of this property depended on 
the customer’s willingness to buy a ma¬ 
chine. 
Lingeringly taking leave of that fasci¬ 
nating pig pen, that orchard whispering 
of fruit, that garden with its promise of 
fresh vegetables, that swing with its sug¬ 
gestion of pleasure for Dorothy and 
Larry, the lawn which spoke of running- 
feet and fresh air and good, healthy, nor¬ 
mal children, the space which fairly sang 
of privacy and liberty, it was a somewhat 
unsettled mind which Mr. Spence carried 
home, and a perplexed expression which 
he brought into the house. 
But his real attitude of mind was ex¬ 
pressed in the little joke he sprang on his 
wife and children at the dinner table. 
“People,” he said, suddenly, “I’m think¬ 
ing of buying an automobile.” 
(To be continued.) 
Water Gardens for Every Place 
(Continued from page 78) 
below his dam. He then built a garden 
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power to supply a fountain jet and fill a 
rectangular lily pool. The outlet of the 
lily pool opened part way down the bank 
already spoken of and the water running- 
over mossy stones and fern grown rocky 
basins tumbled into the meadow stream. 
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