February, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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sorts of destruction on him if he “fix” it 
again! D. bought another lawn-mower 
last month; told the salesman to give her 
the best he had, for perhaps they were 
right, after all, and there was something 
the matter; but next day I grinned as the 
same complaint arose. 
The grass walk is the latest of our cre¬ 
ations. It follows the line of an old drive 
to the barn, abandoned when the road in 
front was lowered and the drive made in¬ 
accessible. Grass grows readily in the thin 
earth over the ashes and oyster shells that 
formed the roadbed; now it is one of the 
more attractive parts of the place. The 
great lilac hedge borders it closely on the 
west; on the east is a bed of perennials a 
hundred feet long or so, with the turf 
slope up to the tennis court beyond. The 
barn is at the farther end, with twin Lom¬ 
bardy poplars and a mass of vines. 
Against it is a garden seat we built of 
three discarded doors. It shows in one of 
the photographs. One door was cut in 
half and forms the ends; another the 
back, and the third the seat. Triangular 
holes were sawed in the back somewhat 
like the Roman baluster-motive; the seat 
was sloped slightly backward to sbed the 
rain-water, and braced so as not to sag in 
the middle, and the several parts perma¬ 
nently fastened together with long screws. 
Half way down the walk is a maple, 
underneath which we used to dine al 
fresco. The lower end loses itself in the 
projecting overgrowth of the lilac hedge 
and the irregular slopes about the foot of 
a great spruce tree, where the small birds 
gather during their spring migration. One 
is tempted to lie late abed in the nearby 
room and analyze the various calls and 
songs. Some morning late in March one 
will be awakened by a flock of grackles; 
later a kinglet will come, perhaps, with his 
rare northern song; in May the warbler- 
wave, the black-and-white, myrtle, black- 
throated-green, blackpoll, redstart, and I 
have seen the “Hibernian” warbler, as D. 
calls it, with its orange throat, and the 
magnolia there. The tree is altogether too 
near one’s bedroom windows! A chance 
contemplation of the black and white and 
vivid rose of a grosbeak against its somber 
green is altogether too seductive. 
There is a sentimental side, too, a 
quality in a bird’s song reminiscent of 
some previous time one has heard it. I 
know certain bird-songs will always be 
associated with this place to me. A blue¬ 
bird’s song brings back the delicious early 
morning when D. and I plotted out the 
drive, with the warm sunshine and the 
purples and vivid greens of late April; the 
cowbird’s call, the half-formed garden, 
stretched string and packages of seeds, 
with the children planting a miniature 
garden, crookeder than ours! But above 
all, the oriole and the monotonous yellow- 
throated vireo will be ever associated with 
summer in her various phases on that up¬ 
land lawn of ours, with the heavy odor of 
locust blossoms, or the dense leafage of 
the maples. 
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