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Synopsis
Excerpt from A Book of Old-World Gardens
Allwas AS IT should BE AT thak ted Grange. Picturesque was a term which had never been heard there; and taste was as little thought of as pretended to; but the right old English word comfort, in its good old English meaning, was nowhere more thoroughly under stood. Everything wasfor use, and nothing for display, unless it were two fowling pieces, which were kept in good order over the fire place in the best kitchen, and never used but when a kite threatened the poultry, or an owl was observed to frequent the dove-cote in pre ference to the barn.
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