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"We have an old country place," he was saying; "it belonged to randfather came by it when the little toas very

small indeed, so he built an old-fashioned stone house and surrounded

it with large grounds" He was seeing the stone house and the large

grounds with that new inner observation which he had just discovered,

and he was trying to the best of his ability to tell what he saw After

a little he spoke ht he spoke

senti; but in reality he was merely

trying with great earnestness for expression A jarring ould have

brought hi he was

wrapt in what he saw This is a condition which all writers, and sonise "Now the place is empty--except in

summer--except that we have an old woman who lives tucked away in one

corner of it I lived there one sue

Outside ainst

the ledge; there were rose vines, the cli sort, on the wall; and

then, too, there was a hickory tree that towered 'way over the roof In

the front yard is what is known all over town as the 'big tree,' a

silver maple, at least twice as tall as the house It is so broad that

its shade falls over the whole front of the place In the back is an

orchard of old apple trees, and trellises of big blue grapes On one

side is a broad lawn, at the back of which is one of the good

old-fashioned flower gardens that does one good to look at There are

little pink pri the sod, silliam, lavender,

nasturtiums, sweet peas, hollyhocks, bachelor's buttons, portulaca, and

a row of tall sunflowers, the delight of a sleepy colony of hens I

learned all the flowers that summer" He clasped his hands co out over the Bad

Lands to the East "In the very centre, as a sort of protecting nurse

to all the littler flowers," he went on, "is a big lilac bush, and

there the bees and hu day There

are plenty of birds too, but I didn't know sotree,' the orchard, the evergreens, the