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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1913 
WIGWARM Setting and Brood Coop 
For a hen and her chicks and while she is sitting. Gives 
protection from rats, 
skunks, hawks, and 
! ^ % other enemies. In- 
''sures larger hatches 
“ —has pi’oved its suc¬ 
cess for 22 years. 
Shipped knocked 
down—size, 2x4 ft., 
2 ft. high. 
$300 
WIGWARM Brooder 
Hot-water and hot-air heating combined gives 
perfect ventilation—no danger of overheating— 
/- -v maintains even tem¬ 
perature regardless of 
cold outside. Used and 
endorsed by poultry 
experts and by experi¬ 
ment stations and 
such men as Dr. A. 
A. Brigham, Dr. N. W, 
Sanborn, Dr. P. T. 
Woods and Mr. A. F. 
Hunter. Size, 3x5 feet. 
$1500 
No. 0 Colony Laying House— 
Inn 19 J|pnc Fitted complete with nests, fountain 
&.U ntiia anc j f eec j trough. Sanitary — easily 
cleaned. One man can easily care for several hundred 
birds. Nicely painted—set up in fifteen minutes. A 
comfortable year-round house. In 
stormy weather the run may be 
covered, giving a protected 
scratching room. Size, 10x4 ft., 5 ft. 
high. 
$2qoo 
Five-Section Poultry House— 
10x50 it. 
Sanitary, durable, up-to-date—made of red cedar, clap- 
boarded outside, interior sheathed. Made in 10-ft. sec¬ 
tions, each fitted with roosts, nests and fountain. Open 
fronts, with canvas-covered frames. You can add sec¬ 
tions at any time. Easily erected. First section, $75.00; 
additional sections, $60.00 each. 
E. F. HODGSON CO., Room 326, 116 Washington St., Boston Mass. 
CRESCA DELICACIES 
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posal the distinctive f oods — the rich savorsome dainties gathered at 
their best from all quarters of the globe, that prevent the dull monotony 
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Our color booklet “Cresca” completely describes and illustrates 
these choice products from manylands together with many unusual 
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Fences of all descriptions for City and Suburban 
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* 1913 Specialty' 
Plant Book 
should be in the hands of every garden lover who is 
interested in well-grown nursery stock. Contains a fund 
of information on the 
unusual plants that will 
give your garden individuality 
lake magnolias, for instance. Few nurseries offer the won¬ 
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pure-white Magnolia conspicua — plants 12 to 14 ft. high at $10.00 each. 
Nowhere else can you find such bush magnolias for your shrubbery 
border; or such fine specimens of the fragrant Sweet Bay (Magnolia 
glauca). 
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larger, finer Meehan-grown Japanese Maples, you will find numerous 
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it through the water from one side of the 
ship to the other.” 
“That’s what I thought, and that’s what 
has been happening to me. I’ve been 
dragged like lightning through drifts a 
mile long where I couldn’t breathe for an 
hour.” 
“Why didn't you tell the boys to stop?” 
“I didn't want them to. I want some¬ 
thing to tell the girls at school that will 
make them die of envy.” 
“We are going to Buttermilk Falls in 
the morning,” said Madge to her hostess 
as she stood sleepily before her, holding a 
candle at an angle of forty-five degrees. 
“What time must we get up ?” 
“You ought to start two hours before 
sunrise.” 
“Wow, but that will be cold and dark!” 
“It will be eight by the clock, but down 
in the Happy Valley in midwinter the Sun¬ 
day is between ten and two.” 
“I was afraid you didn’t have any Sun¬ 
day here,” interposed Marian. 
“Just you wait till it comes,” said I, 
“and watsh your Aunt Lucy waltb you off 
six miles to a Sunday School that she runs 
for just such little heathen as you.” 
It was a gay party that started from the 
cabin before the clock struck eight in the 
morning and it was a tired party that five 
hours later, having wallowed five miles in 
the snow, begged to have its dinner served 
raw rather than have it delayed. 
“Did you see any game?” I asked. 
“Millions of them,” exclaimed Marian. 
“There was a bunch of wild hens, I guess 
they were, that made an awful noise when 
they flew and Jack held a stick in both 
hands and pointed it at them and said 
‘Click!’ What do boys do that for? I’ve 
seen them do it to a cat. Then there were 
tracks of everything in the snow. There 
were the cunningest little mouse’s tracks 
close to a tree and a big bear’s track go¬ 
ing right up the mountain. Jack said it 
was the track of a rabbit, or a fox, or 
some kind of a cat—he didn’t mention the 
name. I think it was a bear, don’t you?” 
“Were the tracks near the big, flat rock 
this side of the falls?” 
“Pretty near.” 
“Then I know all about it. Do you re¬ 
member what happened to the children 
who mocked Elisha?” 
“Forty-two bears tare them. Maybe it 
was forty-two children that the bears 
tared.” 
“Well, whichever it was, the descendants 
of those bears have settled near that big 
rock and they may have overheard some 
of your disrespectful remarks to me.” 
“We did see bear caves on the side of 
the mountains,” said Madge, “and all kinds 
of gruesome monsters among the rocks, 
for the snow on the mountainside was 
full of deep shadows that formed strange 
profiles and made masks like distorted 
faces. I had to recite something about 
winter once, and I remember that: 
‘Nature was frozen dead — and still and 
slow, 
A winding sheet fell o’er her body fair,’ 
but there isn’t any winding sheet about 
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